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From: grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au>
To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net, aqm@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Bloat] [aqm]  pie, codel, fq_pie, fq_codel tech report
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:43:09 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57A28F9D.8060506@swin.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <595be984-efaa-8cbf-3376-1f29150e200d@pollere.com>

Kathy, Dave,

Thanks for the +ve comments!

On 08/04/2016 03:03, Kathleen Nichols wrote:
> Nicely laid out and reported, but I have a question for the authors. At the
> top of section II. D. it says:
> "Instantaneous’ throughput is an approximation derived
> from the actual bytes transferred during constant windows
> of time."
>
> Is the "actual bytes transferred" the sum of the packet sizes through
> the link or is it the actual advance in sequence number bytes?

Simplistic sum of the IP payload lengths per unit time as seen at the destination's NIC.  (We took the line of least resistance for this tech report. But yes, the advance of sequence num. per unit time would be a more precise estimate of the useful flow of bytes as experienced by the application.)

cheers,
gja

>
> 	thanks,
> 		Kathie
>
>
> On 8/3/16 6:37 AM, Dave Täht wrote:
>> I am especially grateful for the full documentation of how to configure
>> the bsd versions of this stuff, but the rest of the report was pretty
>> good too.
>>
>> http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/160708A/CAIA-TR-160708A.pdf
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Professor Grenville Armitage
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School of Software and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-04  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-03 13:37 [Bloat] " Dave Täht
2016-08-03 17:03 ` Kathleen Nichols
2016-08-04  0:43   ` grenville armitage [this message]
2016-08-04  2:13     ` [Bloat] [aqm] " David Lang
2016-08-04 15:29       ` Kathleen Nichols

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