RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP

This document presents a conservative loss recovery algorithm for TCP that is based on the use of the selective acknowledgment (SACK) TCP option. The…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Informative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Informative reference — RFC 2582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm

Incoming relationships (13 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4898: TCP Extended Statistics MIB
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 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3708: Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6937: Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9937: Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR)