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TCP Instant Recovery: Incorporating Forward Error Correction in TCP
draft-flach-tcpm-fec-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual in tsv area)
Expired & archived
Authors Tobias Flach, Nandita Dukkipati , Yuchung Cheng , Barath Raghavan
Last updated 2015-10-14 (Latest revision 2013-07-14)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Experimental
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IESG IESG state Expired (IESG: Dead)
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Responsible AD Martin Stiemerling
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Abstract

Ordinary TCP loss recovery takes at least one round-trip time and as such can increase application-perceived latency, especially for short flows such as Web transactions. TCP Instant Recovery (TCP-IR) is an experimental algorithm that allows a receiving end to recover lost packets without retransmissions, thus potentially saving at least one full round-trip time compared to standard TCP. TCP-IR achieves this by judiciously injecting encoded data segments within a TCP stream. This document describes the TCP-IR algorithm at the sending and receiving ends, along with the required protocol changes.

Authors

Tobias Flach
Nandita Dukkipati
Yuchung Cheng
Barath Raghavan

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