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diff --git a/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig b/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..67f9c06bd179 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/dccp/ccids/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +menu "DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on IP_DCCP && EXPERIMENTAL + +config IP_DCCP_CCID3 + tristate "CCID3 (TFRC) (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on IP_DCCP + ---help--- + CCID 3 denotes TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), an equation-based + rate-controlled congestion control mechanism. TFRC is designed to + be reasonably fair when competing for bandwidth with TCP-like flows, + where a flow is "reasonably fair" if its sending rate is generally + within a factor of two of the sending rate of a TCP flow under the + same conditions. However, TFRC has a much lower variation of + throughput over time compared with TCP, which makes CCID 3 more + suitable than CCID 2 for applications such streaming media where a + relatively smooth sending rate is of importance. + + CCID 3 is further described in [CCID 3 PROFILE]. The TFRC + congestion control algorithms were initially described in RFC 3448. + + This text was extracted from draft-ietf-dccp-spec-11.txt. + + If in doubt, say M. + +endmenu |