RFC 3522: The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP

The Eifel detection algorithm allows a TCP sender to detect a posteriori whether it has entered loss recovery unnecessarily. It requires that the TCP…

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Outgoing relationships (6 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 2582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 3481: TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks

Incoming relationships (13 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6582: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
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 4898: TCP Extended Statistics MIB
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5682: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP
Informatively 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)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8961: Requirements for Time-Based Loss Detection
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7786: TCP Modifications for Congestion Exposure (ConEx)