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TCP Alternative Backoff with ECN (ABE)
draft-khademi-alternativebackoff-ecn-03

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Naeem Khademi , Michael Welzl , Dr. Grenville Armitage , Gorry Fairhurst
Last updated 2016-04-04
Replaced by draft-khademi-tsvwg-ecn-response, draft-khademi-tcpm-alternativebackoff-ecn
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Abstract

This memo provides an experimental update to RFC3168. It updates the TCP sender-side reaction to a congestion notification received via Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN). The updated method reduces cwnd by a smaller amount than TCP does in reaction to loss. The intention is to achieve good throughput when the queue at the bottleneck is smaller than the bandwidth-delay-product of the connection. This is more likely when an Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanism has used ECN to CE-mark a packet, than when a packet was lost. Future versions of this document will discuss SCTP as well as other transports using ECN.

Authors

Naeem Khademi
Michael Welzl
Dr. Grenville Armitage
Gorry Fairhurst

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