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Early Retransmit for TCP and SCTP
draft-allman-tcp-early-rexmt-07

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual in tsv area)
Author Mark Allman
Last updated 2015-10-14 (Latest revision 2008-06-25)
Stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-allman-tcp-early-rexmt-07.txt

Abstract

This document proposes a new mechanism for TCP and 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 packet losses that would otherwise require a lengthy retransmission timeout.

Authors

Mark Allman

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