A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport Protocols
RFC 6297, “A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport Protocols”, is an Informational document published in June 2011 by M. Welzl, D. Ros. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document provides a survey of transport protocols that are designed to have a smaller bandwidth and/or delay impact on standard TCP than standard TCP itself when they share a bottleneck with it. Such protocols could be used for delay-insensitive "background" traffic, as they provide what is sometimes called a "less than" (or "lower than") best-effort service. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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