RFC 9840 on rLEDBAT: Receiver-Driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport for TCP

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        RFC 9840

        Title:      rLEDBAT: Receiver-Driven Low Extra Delay 
                    Background Transport for TCP 
        Author:     M. Bagnulo,
                    A. García-Martínez,
                    G. Montenegro,
                    P. Balasubramanian
        Status:     Experimental
        Stream:     IRTF
        Date:       September 2025
        Mailbox:    marcelo@it.uc3m.es,
                    alberto@it.uc3m.es,
                    g.e.montenegro@hotmail.com,
                    pravb.ietf@gmail.com
        Pages:      18
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-irtf-iccrg-rledbat-10.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9840

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9840

This document specifies receiver-driven Low Extra Delay Background
Transport (rLEDBAT) -- a set of mechanisms that enable the execution
of a less-than-best-effort congestion control algorithm for TCP at
the receiver end. This document is a product of the Internet
Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) of the Internet Research
Task Force (IRTF).

This document is a product of the Internet Congestion Control Research Group of the IRTF.


EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
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