{"draft":"draft-ietf-tsvwg-tfrc-05","doc_id":"RFC3448","title":" TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification ","authors":["M. Handley","S. Floyd","J. Padhye","J. Widmer"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"24","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Transport Area Working Group","abstract":" 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.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"December 2002","keywords":["TFRC","TCP Friendly Rate Control","congestion","unicast","streaming media"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":["RFC5348"],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC3448","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc3448"}