HyStart++

Network Working Group P. Balasubramanian Internet-Draft Y. Huang Intended status: Informational M. Olson Expires: October 28, 2020 Microsoft April 26, 2020 HyStart++: Modified Slow Start for TCP draft-balasubramanian-tcpm-hystartplusplus-03 Abstract This informational memo describes HyStart++, a simple modification to the slow start phase of TCP congestion control algorithms. HyStart++ combines the use of one variant of HyStart and Limited Slow Start (LSS) to prevent overshooting of the ideal sending rate, while also mitigating poor performance which can result from false positives when HyStart is used alone.