RFC 3465: TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC)

This document proposes a small modification to the way TCP increases its congestion window. Rather than the traditional method of increasing the congestion…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 2861: TCP Congestion Window Validation

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 3742: Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9260: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6356: Coupled Congestion Control for Multipath Transport Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8337: Model-Based Metrics for Bulk Transport Capacity
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6559: A Reliable Transport Mechanism for PIM
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9959: Careful Resume: Convergence of Congestion Control from Retained State