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TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification

Author(s) -

Sally Floyd,

Mark Handley,

Jitendra Padhye,

Joerg Widmer

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

rfc

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.17487/rfc5348

Subject(s) - unicast , tcp friendly rate control , computer network , computer science , transmission control protocol , network congestion , throughput , tcp westwood plus , telecommunications , multicast , network packet , wireless

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, which makes it more suitable for applications such as telephony or streaming media where a relatively smooth sending rate is of importance.

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