RFC 4653: Improving the Robustness of TCP to Non-Congestion Events

This document specifies Non-Congestion Robustness (NCR) for TCP. In the absence of explicit congestion notification from the network, TCP uses loss as an…

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Normative reference — RFC 2581: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
Normative reference — RFC 3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Informative reference — RFC 2960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 896: Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks
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 3465: TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting (ABC)
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
Informative reference — RFC 4138: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5690: Adding Acknowledgement Congestion Control to TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)