RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer

This document defines the standard algorithm that Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) senders are required to use to compute and manage their retransmission…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Updates — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 2988: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Normative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Normative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance

Incoming relationships (23 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6347: Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9147: The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6817: Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6928: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8489: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7661: Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9438: CUBIC for Fast and Long-Distance Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6940: REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) Base Protocol
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8298: Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9040: TCP Control Block Interdependence
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8931: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Selective Fragment Recovery
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8855: The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8352: Energy-Efficient Features of Internet of Things Protocols
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9681: IS-IS Fast Flooding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8961: Requirements for Time-Based Loss Detection
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6538: The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Experiment Report
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8774: The Quantum Bug