@misc{rfc3448, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 3448, howpublished = {RFC 3448}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC3448}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3448}, author = {Mark J. Handley and Sally Floyd and Jitendra Padhye and Joerg Widmer}, title = {{TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification}}, pagetotal = 24, year = 2003, month = jan, abstract = {This document specifies TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). TFRC is a congestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in a best- effort Internet environment. It is reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP flows, but has a much lower variation of throughput over time compared with TCP, making it more suitable for applications such as telephony or streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }