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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Traffic patterns for AQM testing.... Bursty behaviour of video players.
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:42:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F231A4F.1040006@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F22DA7F.6090302@freedesktop.org>

> In the short term, I need to understand what current TCP systems
> *should* do in the face of long idle periods, which invalidate the
> congestion information.

Is your glass half-empty and/or has a leak?  Then TCP should decay or 
reset its cwnd while/when idle.

Is your glass half-full?  Then TCP should leave the cwnd alone.

Both are ass-u-me-ing something about the state of the path between the 
sender and the receiver.

rick jones

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-27 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-26 20:04 Jim Gettys
2012-01-26 20:14 ` Justin McCann
2012-01-26 20:48 ` Paul Gleichauf
2012-01-27 17:10   ` Jim Gettys
2012-01-27 18:11     ` Eggert, Lars
2012-01-27 21:42     ` Rick Jones [this message]

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