Name: draft-ietf-tsvwg-tcp-eifel-response-06
Title: The Eifel Response Algorithm for TCP
State: Pending
Authors: Reiner Ludwig, Andrei Gurtov
Group: Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg)
Date: 2004-09-15
Based on an appropriate detection algorithm, the Eifel response algorithm
provides a way for a TCP sender to respond to a detected spurious timeout.
It adapts the retransmission timer to avoid further spurious timeouts, and
can avoid - depending on the detection algorithm - the often unnecessary
go-back-N retransmits that would otherwise be sent. In addition, the Eifel
response algorithm restores the congestion control state in such a way that
packet bursts are avoided.
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