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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] sigcomm wifi
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 06:52:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <479FD3FF-BBA8-4FB8-916E-C637F2CB1980@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140824034935.7D41E406060@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>


On 24 Aug, 2014, at 6:49 am, Hal Murray wrote:

>>> Yep... I remember a neat paper from colleagues at Trento University that
>>> piggybacked TCP's ACKs on link layer ACKs, thereby avoiding the collisions
>>> between TCP's ACKs and other data packets - really nice. Not sure if it
>>> wasn't just simulations, though.
> 
>> that's a neat hack, but I don't see it working, except when one end of the
>> wireless link is also the endpoint of the TCP connection (and then only for
>> acks  from that device) 
> 
> That could be generalized to piggybacking any handy small packet onto the 
> link layer ACK.
> 
> Of course, then you have to send back a link layer ACK for the extra info.  
> Does that converge?

No, you don't.  If the link-layer ack (plus payload) didn't get through, the other end will (usually) retransmit the frame anyway.

So you don't get recursive acks.  :-)

 - Jonathan Morton


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-24  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-24  3:49 Hal Murray
2014-08-24  3:52 ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2014-08-24  5:14 ` David Lang
2014-08-25  7:43   ` Michael Welzl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-19 16:45 Dave Taht
2014-08-20  7:12 ` Eggert, Lars
2014-08-20 14:01   ` Dave Taht
2014-08-20 22:05   ` Jim Gettys
2014-08-21  6:52     ` Eggert, Lars
2014-08-21  7:11       ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-21  8:30         ` David Lang
2014-08-22 23:07           ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-22 23:50             ` David Lang
2014-08-23 19:26               ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-23 23:29                 ` Jonathan Morton
2014-08-23 23:40                   ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-23 23:49                     ` Jonathan Morton
2014-08-24  1:33                   ` David Lang
2014-08-24  2:29                     ` Jonathan Morton
2014-08-24  5:12                       ` David Lang
2014-08-24  6:26                         ` Jonathan Morton
2014-08-24  8:24                           ` David Lang
2014-08-24  9:20                             ` Jonathan Morton
2014-08-25  7:25                             ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-30  7:20                             ` Jonathan Morton
2014-08-31 20:46                               ` Simon Barber
2014-08-25  7:35                   ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-24  1:09                 ` David Lang
2014-08-25  8:01                   ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-25  8:19                     ` Sebastian Moeller
2014-08-25  8:33                       ` Michael Welzl
2014-08-25  9:18                         ` Alex Burr
2014-08-31 22:37                       ` David Lang
2014-08-31 23:09                         ` Simon Barber
2014-09-01  0:25                           ` David Lang
2014-09-01  2:14                             ` Simon Barber
2014-08-31 22:35                     ` David Lang
2014-08-21  6:56     ` David Lang
2014-08-21  7:04     ` David Lang
2014-08-21  9:46       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-08-21 19:49         ` David Lang
2014-08-21 19:57           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-22 17:07             ` Jan Ceuleers
2014-08-22 18:27               ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-21  8:58     ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-22 23:34       ` David Lang
2014-08-22 23:41         ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-22 23:52           ` David Lang
2014-08-22 23:56             ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-23  0:03               ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-21  9:23     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2014-08-21  9:30       ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-22 23:30         ` David Lang
2014-08-22 23:40           ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-20  8:30 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2014-08-21  6:58   ` David Lang

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