RFC 5348

"TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification", September 2008

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5348.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 3448

Updates:

RFC 4342

Authors:

S. Floyd
M. Handley
J. Padhye
J. Widmer

Stream:

IETF

Source:

dccp (tsv)

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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 streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.

This document obsoletes RFC 3448 and updates RFC 4342. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.