CWR

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CWR (Congestion Window Reduced) is a TCP flag used to indicate that a sender has reduced its congestion window in response to network congestion, as specified in RFC 3168.

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CWR canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Explicit Congestion Notification mechanism
TCP flag
associatedWith congestion control
network congestion management
bitPositionContext one of the TCP flags bits
bitType control bit
category transport layer mechanism
definedIn RFC 3168
effectOnSender requires sender to reduce congestion window before setting flag
fullName Congestion Window Reduced
headerFieldOf TCP header
indicates response to network congestion
sender has reduced its congestion window
introducedBy RFC 3168 authors
introducedIn The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
surface form: Explicit Congestion Notification for IP and TCP
layer transport layer
partOf TCP control flags field
purpose signal congestion window reduction to the receiver
support Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP
relatedTo ECE
ECN
scope end-to-end TCP connection
semantics acknowledges reception of ECN congestion indication
notifies receiver that congestion response has been taken
standardTrack Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF
status standardized
triggeredBy receipt of ECE flag
usedInProtocol Transmission Control Protocol
surface form: TCP

Transmission Control Protocol
visibility seen in TCP segment headers on the wire

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