RFC 5348: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification

This document specifies TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). TFRC is a congestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in a best-effort Internet…

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Outgoing relationships (2 related RFCs)

Updates — RFC 4342: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion Control ID 3: TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC)
Obsoletes — RFC 3448: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification

Incoming relationships (28 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6679: Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for RTP over UDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8083: Multimedia Congestion Control: Circuit Breakers for Unicast RTP Sessions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7178: Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): RBridge Channel Support
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8312: CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5622: Profile for Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) Congestion ID 4: TCP-Friendly Rate Control for Small Packets (TFRC-SP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8698: Network-Assisted Dynamic Adaptation (NADA): A Unified Congestion Control Scheme for Real-Time Media
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5634: Quick-Start for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6323: Sender RTT Estimate Option for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5881: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5883: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for Multihop Paths
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8084: Network Transport Circuit Breakers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5762: RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6077: Open Research Issues in Internet Congestion Control
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7141: Byte and Packet Congestion Notification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9330: Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9331: The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8836: Congestion Control Requirements for Interactive Real-Time Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9332: Dual-Queue Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM) for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6297: A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9347: Aggregation and Fragmentation Mode for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Its Use for IP Traffic Flow Security (IP-TFS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7295: Report from the IAB/IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9348: A YANG Data Model for IP Traffic Flow Security
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9349: Definitions of Managed Objects for IP Traffic Flow Security
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6828: Content Splicing for RTP Sessions