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
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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
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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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