@techreport{welzl-iccrg-pacing-01, number = {draft-welzl-iccrg-pacing-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-welzl-iccrg-pacing/01/}, author = {Michael Welzl and Wesley Eddy and Vidhi Goel and Michael Tüxen}, title = {{Pacing in Transport Protocols}}, pagetotal = 12, year = 2024, month = oct, day = 21, 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.}, }