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
Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any
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