@techreport{allman-rto-backoff-05,
    number =    {draft-allman-rto-backoff-05},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allman-rto-backoff/05/},
    author =    {Mark Allman},
    title =     {{Using Spurious Retransmissions to Adapt the Retransmission Timeout}},
    pagetotal = 8,
    year =      2007,
    month =     jul,
    day =       12,
    abstract =  {This document describes a method for using spurious retransmission timeouts as the trigger for slightly changing the way TCP's retransmission timeout is computed in an effort to avoid subsequent unnecessary retransmissions.},
}