QUIC: separated path validation retransmit backoff. Path validation packets containing PATH_CHALLENGE frames are sent separately from regular frame queue, because of the need to use a decicated path and pad the packets. The packets are sent periodically, separately from the regular probe/lost detection mechanism. A path validation packet is resent up to 3 times, each time after PTO expiration, with increasing per-path PTO backoff.

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