{"draft":"draft-ietf-tcpimpl-cong-control-05","doc_id":"RFC2581","title":"TCP Congestion Control","authors":["M. Allman","V. Paxson","W. Stevens"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"14","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"TCP Implementation","abstract":" This document defines TCP's four intertwined congestion control algorithms: slow start, congestion avoidance, fast retransmit, and fast recovery.  In addition, the document specifies how TCP should begin transmission after a relatively long idle period, as well as discussing various acknowledgment generation methods.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]  ","pub_date":"March 1999","keywords":["TCP-CC","Transmission Control Protocol","Congestion Control"],"obsoletes":["RFC2001"],"obsoleted_by":["RFC5681"],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC3390"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC2581","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc2581"}