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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 acongestion control mechanism for unicast flows operating in abest-effort Internet environment. It is reasonably fair whencompeting for bandwidth with TCP flows, but has a much lower variationof throughput over time compared with TCP, making it more suitable forapplications such as streaming media where a relatively smooth sendingrate is of importance.

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

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.