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Summary: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Allman
Request for Comments: 5827 ICSI
Category: Experimental K. Avrachenkov
ISSN: 2070-1721 INRIA
U. Ayesta
BCAM-IKERBASQUE and LAAS-CNRS
J. Blanton
Ohio University
P. Hurtig
Karlstad University
April 2010
Early Retransmit for TCP
and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Abstract
This document proposes a new mechanism for TCP and Stream Control
Transmission Protocol (SCTP) that can be used to recover lost
segments when a connection's congestion window is small. The "Early
Retransmit" mechanism allows the transport to reduce, in certain
special circumstances, the number of duplicate acknowledgments
required to trigger a fast retransmission. This allows the transport
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