@misc{rfc3742,
    series =    {Request for Comments},
    number =    3742,
    howpublished =  {RFC 3742},
    publisher = {RFC Editor},
    doi =       {10.17487/RFC3742},
    url =       {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3742},
    author =    {Sally Floyd},
    title =     {{Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows}},
    pagetotal = 7,
    year =      2004,
    month =     mar,
    abstract =  {This document describes an optional modification for TCP's slow-start for use with TCP connections with large congestion windows. For TCP connections that are able to use congestion windows of thousands (or tens of thousands) of MSS-sized segments (for MSS the sender's MAXIMUM SEGMENT SIZE), the current slow-start procedure can result in increasing the congestion window by thousands of segments in a single round-trip time. Such an increase can easily result in thousands of packets being dropped in one round-trip time. This is often counter-productive for the TCP flow itself, and is also hard on the rest of the traffic sharing the congested link. This note describes Limited Slow-Start as an optional mechanism for limiting the number of segments by which the congestion window is increased for one window of data during slow-start, in order to improve performance for TCP connections with large congestion windows. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.},
}