RFC 9840

rLEDBAT: Receiver-Driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport for TCP, September 2025

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Status:
EXPERIMENTAL
Authors:
M. Bagnulo
A. García-Martínez
G. Montenegro
P. Balasubramanian
Stream:
IRTF

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9840

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Abstract

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).


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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