RFC 5559: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture
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This document describes a general architecture for flow admission and termination based on pre-congestion information in order to protect the quality of service of established, inelastic flows within a single Diffserv domain. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC5559
- Published
- June 2009
- Authors
- P. Eardley
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- tsv
- Pages
- 54
- Also known as
- —
Topics
Related documents
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- RFC 5696Baseline Encoding and Transport of Pre-Congestion InformationObsoleted
November 2009
- RFC 6660Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)Current
July 2012
- RFC 7713Congestion Exposure (ConEx) Concepts, Abstract Mechanism, and RequirementsCurrent
December 2015
- RFC 7837IPv6 Destination Option for Congestion Exposure (ConEx)Current
May 2016
- RFC 7141Byte and Packet Congestion NotificationCurrent
February 2014
- RFC 9330Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: ArchitectureCurrent
January 2023
- RFC 9331The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Protocol for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)Current
January 2023
- RFC 9332Dual-Queue Coupled Active Queue Management (AQM) for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)Current
January 2023
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