Title: TCP Congestion Control
Author(s): M. Allman, V. Paxson, W. Stevens.
Status: PROPOSED STANDARD
Date: Apr 1999
Length: 31351
Obsoletes: RFC2001
Updated by: RFC3390
This document defines TCP's four intertwined congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery. In addition, the document specifies how TCP should begin transmission after a relatively long idle period, as well as discussing various acknowledgment generation methods.
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