2414: Increasing TCP's Initial Window.

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This document specifies an increase in the permitted initial window for TCP from one segment to roughly 4K bytes. This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such a change, outlining experimental results that indicate the costs and benefits of such a change to TCP.

Status EXPERIMENTAL
Format TXT=32019 bytes
Authors C. Partridge S. Floyd
Date September 1998
Keyphrases initial window TCP segment increase

Obsoleted by

RFC3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window.

References

RFC821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
RFC1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers.
RFC1191: Path MTU discovery.
RFC1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0.
RFC2001: TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast Recovery Algorithms.
RFC2018: TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options.
RFC2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
RFC2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.
RFC2309: Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet.
RFC2415: Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size.
RFC2416: When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers.

Referenced by

RFC2416: When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers.
RFC2488: Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms.
RFC2525: Known TCP Implementation Problems.
RFC2581: TCP Congestion Control.
RFC2757: Long Thin Networks.
RFC2760: Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites.
RFC2914: Congestion Control Principles.
RFC3002: Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop.
RFC3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window.