Ethan Blanton, Mark Allman, Lili Wang, Ilpo Jarvinen, Markku Kojo, Yoshifumi Nishida. A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP, August 2012. RFC 6675.
Status: Standards Track, Obsoletes RFC 3517.
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Abstract:

This document presents a conservative loss recovery algorithm for TCP that is based on the use of the selective acknowledgment (SACK) TCP option. The algorithm presented in this document conforms to the spirit of the current congestion control specification (RFC 5681), but allows TCP senders to recover more effectively when multiple segments are lost from a single flight of data. This document obsoletes RFC 3517 and describes changes from it.

BibTeX:

@misc{BAW+12,
    author =        "Ethan Blanton and Mark Allman and Lili Wang and Ilpo Jarvinen and Markku Kojo and Yoshifumi Nishida",
    title  =        "{A Conservative Loss Recovery Algorithm Based on Selective Acknowledgment (SACK) for TCP}",
    year   =        2012,
    month  =        aug,
    note   =        "RFC 6675",
}