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What is TCP-Friendly Protocol (System)

Chapter 86
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A protocol (system), which applies TCP-like congestion control. TCP-friendly protocols (systems) directly apply TCP’s congestion control mechanism or emulate it using the TCP throughput equation. The main properties of TCP-friendly protocols (systems) are avoidance of TCP connections collapse and fairness toward competing flows.
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TCP and TCP-Friendly Protocols
Agnieszka Chodorek (Kielce University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch086
Abstract
One of the most popular transport protocols—Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)—has a long history. The first document describing TCP protocol in early stages was published in 1974. Since then, TCP specification was changed several times, and finally in 1981 was standardised by RFC 793 (Postel, 1981). Two years later TCP, together with Internet Protocol (IP), became the official protocol suite of the Internet. In the same year the first widely available implementation of TCP in the 4.2 BSD operating system was built.
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