{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-tsvwg-slowstart-00",
  "doc_id": "RFC3742",
  "title": "Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows",
  "authors": [
    "S. Floyd"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "7",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "Transport and Services Working Group",
  "abstract": "This document describes an optional modification for TCP's slow-start for use with TCP connections with large congestion windows.  For TCP connections that are able to use congestion windows of thousands (or tens of thousands) of MSS-sized segments (for MSS the sender's MAXIMUM SEGMENT SIZE), the current slow-start procedure can result in increasing the congestion window by thousands of segments in a single round-trip time.  Such an increase can easily result in thousands of packets being dropped in one round-trip time.  This is often counter-productive for the TCP flow itself, and is also hard on the rest of the traffic sharing the congested link.  This note describes Limited Slow-Start as an optional mechanism for limiting the number of segments by which the congestion window is increased for one window of data during slow-start, in order to improve performance for TCP connections with large congestion windows.  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.",
  "pub_date": "March 2004",
  "keywords": [
    "TCP",
    "transmission control protocol",
    "congestion"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3742",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc3742"
}