Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
draft-ietf-tsvwg-limited-xmit-00

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        RFC 3042

        Title:      Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited
                    Transmit 
        Author(s):  M. Allman, H. Balakrishnan, S. Floyd
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2001
        Mailbox:    mallman@grc.nasa.gov, hari@lcs.mit.edu,
                    floyd@aciri.org 
        Pages:      9
        Characters: 19885
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tsvwg-limited-xmit-00.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3042.txt

This document proposes a new Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
mechanism that can be used to more effectively recover lost segments
when a connection's congestion window is small, or when a large number
of segments are lost in a single transmission window.  The "Limited
Transmit" algorithm calls for sending a new data segment in response
to each of the first two duplicate acknowledgments that arrive at the
sender.  Transmitting these segments increases the probability that
TCP can recover from a single lost segment using the fast retransmit
algorithm, rather than using a costly retransmission timeout.  Limited
Transmit can be used both in conjunction with, and in the absence of,
the TCP selective acknowledgment (SACK) mechanism.

This document is a product of the Transport Area Working Group of the
IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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