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RFC 1323 Window Scaling & Timestamps

 This memo presents a set of TCP extensions to improve performance
 over large bandwidth*delay product paths and to provide reliable
 operation over very high-speed paths.  It defines new TCP options for
 scaled windows and timestamps, which are designed to provide
 compatible interworking with TCP’s that do not implement the
 extensions.  The timestamps are used for two distinct mechanisms:
 RTTM (Round Trip Time Measurement) and PAWS (Protect Against Wrapped
 Sequences).  Selective acknowledgments are not included in this memo.

RFC 2018 Selective ACK

 TCP may experience poor performance when multiple packets are lost
 from one window of data.   With the limited information available
 from cumulative acknowledgments, a TCP sender can only learn about a
 single lost packet per round trip time.  An aggressive sender could
 choose to retransmit packets early, but such retransmitted segments
 may have already been successfully received.
 A Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) mechanism, combined with a
 selective repeat retransmission policy, can help to overcome these
 limitations.  The receiving TCP sends back SACK packets to the sender
 informing the sender of data that has been received. The sender can
 then retransmit only the missing data segments.

RFC 2001/2851 TCP Reno (Slow Start, Cong. Avoidance, Fast Retransmit & Recovery)

 Modern implementations of TCP contain four intertwined algorithms
 that have never been fully documented as Internet standards:  slow
 start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery.  [2]
 and [3] provide some details on these algorithms, [4] provides
 examples of the algorithms in action, and [5] provides the source
 code for the 4.4BSD implementation.  RFC 1122 requires that a TCP
 must implement slow start and congestion avoidance (Section 4.2.2.15
 of [1]), citing [2] as the reference, but fast retransmit and fast
 recovery were implemented after RFC 1122.  The purpose of this
 document is to document these four algorithms for the Internet.

RFC 2414/3390 Increase initial window size

 This document specifies an optional standard for TCP to increase the
 permitted initial window from one or two segment(s) to roughly 4K
 bytes, replacing RFC 2414.  It discusses the advantages and
 disadvantages of the higher initial window, and includes discussion
 of experiments and simulations showing that the higher initial window
 does not lead to congestion collapse.  Finally, this document
 provides guidance on implementation issues.

RFC 2873 Accept TOS/Precedence changes

 This memo describes a conflict between TCP [RFC793] and DiffServ
 [RFC2475] on the use of the three leftmost bits in the TOS octet of
 an IPv4 header [RFC791]. In a network that contains DiffServ-capable
 nodes, such a conflict can cause failures in establishing TCP
 connections or can cause some established TCP connections to be reset
 undesirably. This memo proposes a modification to TCP for resolving
 the conflict. 
 Because the IPv6 [RFC2460] traffic class octet does not have any
 defined meaning except what is defined in RFC 2474, and in particular
 does not define precedence or security parameter bits, there is no
 conflict between TCP and DiffServ on the use of any bits in the IPv6
 traffic class octet.
 

RFC 2988 RTO calculation

 This document defines the standard algorithm that Transmission
 Control Protocol (TCP) senders are required to use to compute and
 manage their retransmission timer.  It expands on the discussion in
 section 4.2.3.1 of RFC 1122 and upgrades the requirement of
 supporting the algorithm from a SHOULD to a MUST.

RFC 3042 Limited transmit

 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.

RFC 3465 ABC

 This document proposes a small modification to the way TCP increases
 its congestion window.  Rather than the traditional method of
 increasing the congestion window by a constant amount for each
 arriving acknowledgment, the document suggests basing the increase on
 the number of previously unacknowledged bytes each ACK covers.  This
 change improves the performance of TCP, as well as closes a security
 hole TCP receivers can use to induce the sender into increasing the
 sending rate too rapidly.

RFC 3517 SACK sender behavior

 This document presents a conservative loss recovery algorithm for TCP
 that is based on the use of the selective acknowledgment (SACK) TCP
 option.  The algorithm presented in this document conforms to the
 spirit of the current congestion control specification (RFC 2581),
 but allows TCP senders to recover more effectively when multiple
 segments are lost from a single flight of data.

RFC 3649 High Speed TCP

 The proposals in this document are experimental.  While they may be
 deployed in the current Internet, they do not represent a consensus
 that this is the best method for high-speed congestion control.  In
 particular, we note that alternative experimental proposals are
 likely to be forthcoming, and it is not well understood how the
 proposals in this document will interact with such alternative
 proposals.
 This document proposes HighSpeed TCP, a modification to TCP’s
 congestion control mechanism for use with TCP connections with large
 congestion windows.  The congestion control mechanisms of the current
 Standard TCP constrains the congestion windows that can be achieved
 by TCP in realistic environments.  For example, for a Standard TCP
 connection with 1500-byte packets and a 100 ms round-trip time,
 achieving a steady-state throughput of 10 Gbps would require an
 average congestion window of 83,333 segments, and a packet drop rate
 of at most one congestion event every 5,000,000,000 packets (or
 equivalently, at most one congestion event every 1 2/3 hours).  This
 is widely acknowledged as an unrealistic constraint.  To address this
 limitation of TCP, this document proposes HighSpeed TCP, and solicits
 experimentation and feedback from the wider community.
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