{"draft":"draft-handley-tcp-cwv-02","doc_id":"RFC2861","title":" TCP Congestion Window Validation ","authors":["M. Handley","J. Padhye","S. Floyd"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"11","pub_status":"EXPERIMENTAL","status":"HISTORIC","source":"Transport Area Working Group","abstract":" This document describes a simple modification to TCP's congestion control algorithms to decay the congestion window cwnd after the transition from a sufficiently-long application-limited period, while using the slow-start threshold ssthresh to save information about the previous value of the congestion window.  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.  ","pub_date":"May 2000","keywords":["TCP","transmission control protocol"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":["RFC7661"],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC2861","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc2861"}