µTP Congestion Control
The congestion control algorithm used by µTP, known as Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT), aims to decrease the latency caused by applications using the protocol while maximizing bandwidth when latency is not excessive. Additionally, information from the µTP congestion controller can be used to choose the transfer rate of TCP connections.
LEDBAT has been described in an Internet-Draft, but the details of the µTP implementation are different from those of the draft.
µTP also adds support for NAT traversal using UDP hole punching between two port-restricted peers where a third unrestricted peer acts as a STUN server.
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