RFC3448: TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification2003 RFC
- Authors:
- M. Handley,
- S. Floyd,
- J. Padhye,
- J. Widmer
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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 telephony or streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.
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