{"draft":"draft-ietf-ledbat-survey-07","doc_id":"RFC6297","title":"A Survey of Lower-than-Best-Effort Transport Protocols","authors":["M. Welzl","D. Ros"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"18","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Low Extra Delay Background Transport","abstract":"This document provides a survey of transport protocols that are\r\ndesigned to have a smaller bandwidth and\/or delay impact on standard\r\nTCP than standard TCP itself when they share a bottleneck with it.\r\nSuch protocols could be used for delay-insensitive \"background\"\r\ntraffic, as they provide what is sometimes called a \"less than\" (or\r\n\"lower than\") best-effort service.  This document is not an \r\nInternet Standards Track specification; it is published \r\nfor informational purposes.","pub_date":"June 2011","keywords":["Less-than-Best-Effort","Congestion Control","LEDBAT"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6297","errata_url":null}