RFC 8961: Requirements for Time-Based Loss Detection

Many protocols must detect packet loss for various reasons (e.g., to ensure reliability using retransmissions or to understand the level of congestion along a…

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Informative reference — RFC 1034: Domain names - concepts and facilities
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options
Informative reference — RFC 6298: Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Informative reference — RFC 2883: An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 7323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 3522: The Eifel Detection Algorithm for TCP
Informative reference — RFC 3124: The Congestion Manager
Informative reference — RFC 2140: TCP Control Block Interdependence
Informative reference — RFC 5740: NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Transport Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 6675: A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) 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 6182: Architectural Guidelines for Multipath TCP Development
Informative reference — RFC 5682: Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9028: Native NAT Traversal Mode for the Host Identity Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9006: TCP Usage Guidance in the Internet of Things (IoT)