diff --git a/api-notification.go b/api-notification.go
index 85e57805b..347b160ee 100644
--- a/api-notification.go
+++ b/api-notification.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // GetBucketNotification - get bucket notification at a given path.
@@ -143,7 +144,14 @@ func (c Client) ListenBucketNotification(bucketName, prefix, suffix string, even
 		}
 
 		// Continously run and listen on bucket notification.
-		for {
+		// Create a done channel to control 'ListObjects' go routine.
+		doneCh := make(chan struct{}, 1)
+
+		// Indicate to our routine to exit cleanly upon return.
+		defer close(doneCh)
+
+		// Wait on the jitter retry loop.
+		for range c.newRetryTimerContinous(time.Second, time.Second*30, MaxJitter, doneCh) {
 			urlValues := make(url.Values)
 			urlValues.Set("prefix", prefix)
 			urlValues.Set("suffix", suffix)
@@ -155,10 +163,7 @@ func (c Client) ListenBucketNotification(bucketName, prefix, suffix string, even
 				queryValues: urlValues,
 			})
 			if err != nil {
-				notificationInfoCh <- NotificationInfo{
-					Err: err,
-				}
-				return
+				continue
 			}
 
 			// Validate http response, upon error return quickly.
@@ -180,10 +185,7 @@ func (c Client) ListenBucketNotification(bucketName, prefix, suffix string, even
 			for bio.Scan() {
 				var notificationInfo NotificationInfo
 				if err = json.Unmarshal(bio.Bytes(), &notificationInfo); err != nil {
-					notificationInfoCh <- NotificationInfo{
-						Err: err,
-					}
-					return
+					continue
 				}
 				// Send notifications on channel only if there are events received.
 				if len(notificationInfo.Records) > 0 {
@@ -200,12 +202,7 @@ func (c Client) ListenBucketNotification(bucketName, prefix, suffix string, even
 				// and re-connect.
 				if err == io.ErrUnexpectedEOF {
 					resp.Body.Close()
-					continue
 				}
-				notificationInfoCh <- NotificationInfo{
-					Err: err,
-				}
-				return
 			}
 		}
 	}(notificationInfoCh)
diff --git a/retry-continous.go b/retry-continous.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e300af69c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/retry-continous.go
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package minio
+
+import "time"
+
+// newRetryTimerContinous creates a timer with exponentially increasing delays forever.
+func (c Client) newRetryTimerContinous(unit time.Duration, cap time.Duration, jitter float64, doneCh chan struct{}) <-chan int {
+	attemptCh := make(chan int)
+
+	// normalize jitter to the range [0, 1.0]
+	if jitter < NoJitter {
+		jitter = NoJitter
+	}
+	if jitter > MaxJitter {
+		jitter = MaxJitter
+	}
+
+	// computes the exponential backoff duration according to
+	// https://www.awsarchitectureblog.com/2015/03/backoff.html
+	exponentialBackoffWait := func(attempt int) time.Duration {
+		// 1<<uint(attempt) below could overflow, so limit the value of attempt
+		maxAttempt := 30
+		if attempt > maxAttempt {
+			attempt = maxAttempt
+		}
+		//sleep = random_between(0, min(cap, base * 2 ** attempt))
+		sleep := unit * time.Duration(1<<uint(attempt))
+		if sleep > cap {
+			sleep = cap
+		}
+		if jitter != NoJitter {
+			sleep -= time.Duration(c.random.Float64() * float64(sleep) * jitter)
+		}
+		return sleep
+	}
+
+	go func() {
+		defer close(attemptCh)
+		var nextBackoff int
+		for {
+			select {
+			// Attempts starts.
+			case attemptCh <- nextBackoff:
+				nextBackoff++
+			case <-doneCh:
+				// Stop the routine.
+				return
+			}
+			time.Sleep(exponentialBackoffWait(nextBackoff))
+		}
+	}()
+	return attemptCh
+}