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RFC 5827: Early Retransmit for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)

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This document proposes a new mechanism for TCP and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) that can be used to recover lost segments when a connection's congestion window is small. The "Early Retransmit" mechanism allows the transport to reduce, in certain special circumstances, the number of duplicate acknowledgments required to trigger a fast retransmission. This allows the transport to use fast retransmit to recover segment losses that would otherwise require a lengthy retransmission timeout. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC5827
Published
April 2010
Authors
M. Allman; K. Avrachenkov; U. Ayesta; J. Blanton; P. Hurtig
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
wit
Pages
15
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