RFC 4138: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

Spurious retransmission timeouts cause suboptimal TCP performance because they often result in unnecessary retransmission of the last window of data. This…

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Outgoing relationships (14 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Normative reference — RFC 2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP
Normative reference — RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 896: Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks
Informative reference — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Informative reference — RFC 2883: An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 3522: The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 3708: Using TCP Duplicate Selective Acknowledgement (DSACKs) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Duplicate Transmission Sequence Numbers (TSNs) to Detect Spurious Retransmissions
Informative reference — RFC 4015: The Eifel Response Algorithm for TCP

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Updated by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 5682: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP
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