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

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This document specifies TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). TFRC is a congestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in a best-effort Internet environment. It is reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP flows, but has a much lower variation of throughput over time compared with TCP, making it more suitable for applications such as streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance. This document obsoletes RFC 3448 and updates RFC 4342. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC5348
Published
September 2008
Authors
S. Floyd; M. Handley; J. Padhye; J. Widmer
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
tsv
Pages
58
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Obsoletes:
RFC 3448
Updates:
RFC 4342

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