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• BCP28 - Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms

  http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp28.txt
  Best current practices document describing ways to improve TCP performance over satellite links.

• RFC 1323 - TCP Extensions for High Performance

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1323
  Defines TCP Window Scale option, timestamps, and protection against wrapped sequence numbers (PAWS).

• RFC 2018 - TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2018
  Proposed standard defining the SACK extension, a technique to better recover from packet loss.

• RFC 2415 - Simulation Studies of Increased Initial TCP Window Size

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2415
  Informational document.

• RFC 2581 - TCP Congestion Control

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2581
  Proposed standard set of congestion avoidance features.

• RFC 2861 - TCP Congestion Window Validation

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2861
  Experimental standard that addresses revalidation of the congestion window after a period when the connection was not network-limited.

• RFC 2883 - An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgment Option for TCP

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2883
  Standard extending the use of SACK to acknowledging duplicate packets.

• RFC 2988 - Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2988
  Proposed standard.

• RFC 3042 - Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3042
  Proposed standard that decreases reliance on the retransmission timer.

• RFC 3168 - The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification to IP

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3168
  Proposed standard adding extra information to TCP allowing routers to inform end-points about congestion.

• RFC 3390 - Increasing TCP's Initial Window

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3390
  Proposed standard, intended to improve startup performance of TCP.

• RFC 3782 - The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3782
  Proposed standard.

• RFC 793 - Transmission Control Protocol

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793
  Standard, STD7, the basis for all later extensions.

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