RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer

This document defines the standard algorithm that Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) senders are required to use to compute and manage their retransmission…

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Incoming relationships (27 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3748: Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4347: Datagram Transport Layer Security
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3539: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Transport Profile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3714: IAB Concerns Regarding Congestion Control for Voice Traffic in the Internet
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3366: Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4138: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3819: Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5944: IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3522: The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3124: The Congestion Manager
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3448: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3449: TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3148: A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5482: TCP User Timeout Option
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5562: Adding Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Capability to TCP's SYN/ACK Packets
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6013: TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5677: IEEE 802.21 Mobility Services Framework Design (MSFD)