RFC 3042: Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document proposes a new Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) mechanism that can be used to more effectively recover lost segments when a connection's congestion window is small, or when a large number of segments are lost in a single transmission window. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC3042
- Published
- January 2001
- Authors
- M. Allman; H. Balakrishnan; S. Floyd
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- wit
- Pages
- 9
- Also known as
- —
Topics
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