File formats:

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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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5348

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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 Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.