{
  "draft": "draft-irtf-iccrg-rledbat-10",
  "doc_id": "RFC9840",
  "title": "rLEDBAT: Receiver-Driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport for TCP",
  "authors": [
    "M. Bagnulo",
    "A. Garc\u00eda-Mart\u00ednez",
    "G. Montenegro",
    "P. Balasubramanian"
  ],
  "format": [
    "XML",
    "TEXT",
    "HTML",
    "PDF"
  ],
  "page_count": "18",
  "pub_status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "status": "EXPERIMENTAL",
  "source": "Internet Congestion Control",
  "abstract": "This document specifies receiver-driven Low Extra Delay Background Transport (rLEDBAT) -- a set of mechanisms that enable the execution of a less-than-best-effort congestion control algorithm for TCP at the receiver end.  This document is a product of the Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).",
  "pub_date": "September 2025",
  "keywords": [
    "Congestion control",
    "scavenger/less-than-best-effort traffic"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC9840",
  "errata_url": null
}