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From: Kathleen Nichols <nichols@pollere.net>
To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] RED 13 years later
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:38:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d6ef700-175c-46c1-987a-9e97333c9b3c@pollere.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526673ff-34dd-49aa-ba1a-7fae47ac5494@sewingwitch.com>


A big issue is that "average queue length" was and is a terrible 
indicator of congestion. But I think the first "bug" Van was referring 
to was the original RED "control law" - I asked him why he thought it 
would work as it really ends up looking like a step function which your 
first control theory course will show is rather primitive. The thing is, 
that TCP is really robust and almost anything will "work" on long-lived 
TCP connections. Which is what everyone used for testing.

On 2/10/24 9:10 AM, Kenneth Porter via Bloat wrote:
> I didn't know what RED was and had to look it up. For others new to the 
> lingo:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_early_detection
> 
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2024-02-10 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-10  4:32 Dave Taht
2024-02-10 17:10 ` Kenneth Porter
2024-02-10 17:38   ` Kathleen Nichols [this message]

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