QUIC Loss Detection and Congestion Control
draft-ietf-quic-recovery-23
QUIC J. Iyengar, Ed.
Internet-Draft Fastly
Intended status: Standards Track I. Swett, Ed.
Expires: March 15, 2020 Google
September 12, 2019
QUIC Loss Detection and Congestion Control
draft-ietf-quic-recovery-23
Abstract
This document describes loss detection and congestion control
mechanisms for QUIC.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Design of the QUIC Transmission Machinery . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Relevant Differences Between QUIC and TCP . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.1. Separate Packet Number Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.2. Monotonically Increasing Packet Numbers . . . . . . . 6
3.1.3. Clearer Loss Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.4. No Reneging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1.5. More ACK Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1.6. Explicit Correction For Delayed Acknowledgements . . 7
4. Estimating the Round-Trip Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. Generating RTT samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. Estimating min_rtt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.3. Estimating smoothed_rtt and rttvar . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Loss Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.1. Acknowledgement-based Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1.1. Packet Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1.2. Time Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. Probe Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2.1. Computing PTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3. Handshakes and New Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.3.1. Sending Probe Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.3.2. Loss Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.4. Retry and Version Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.5. Discarding Keys and Packet State . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.6. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. Congestion Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.1. Explicit Congestion Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.2. Slow Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.3. Congestion Avoidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.4. Recovery Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.5. Ignoring Loss of Undecryptable Packets . . . . . . . . . 16
6.6. Probe Timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.7. Persistent Congestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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