Hi everyone,

I've recently published a paper on Arxiv which is relevant to the Bufferbloat problem. I hope it will be helpful in convincing AQM doubters.

Discussions at the recent IAB workshop inspired me to write a detailed argument for why end-to-end methods cannot avoid latency spikes. I couldn't find this argument in the literature.

Here is the Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00488

A direct consequence is that we need AQMs at all points in the internet where congestion is likely to happen, even for short periods, to mitigate the impact of latency spikes. Here I am assuming we ultimately want an Internet without lag-spikes, not just low latency on average.

Hope you find this interesting!