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Pacing in Transport Protocols
draft-welzl-iccrg-pacing-03

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Authors Michael Welzl , Wesley Eddy , Vidhi Goel , Michael Tüxen
Last updated 2026-01-08 (Latest revision 2025-07-07)
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Abstract

Applications or congestion control mechanisms can produce bursty traffic which can cause unnecessary queuing and packet loss. To reduce the burstiness of traffic, the concept of evenly spacing out the traffic from a data sender over a round-trip time known as "pacing" has been used in many transport protocol implementations. This document gives an overview of pacing and how some known pacing implementations work.

Authors

Michael Welzl
Wesley Eddy
Vidhi Goel
Michael Tüxen

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