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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: "Bjørn Ivar Teigen" <bjorn@domos.no>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 00:45:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DF20F5F6-E1DA-489E-8057-9A4B7CF966B4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKf5G6LHGpY7hew+GLs3fxHR2=bPehZvoKmFez54=HNyvy3PTA@mail.gmail.com>

> On 4 Aug, 2022, at 3:21 pm, Bjørn Ivar Teigen via Bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> Main take-away (as I understand it) is something like "In real-world networks, jitter adds noise to the end-to-end delay such that any algorithm trying to infer congestion from end-to-end delay measurements will occasionally get it wrong and this can lead to starvation". Seems related to Jaffe's work on network power (titled "Flow control power is non-decentralizable"). 

Hasn't this been known for many years, as a consequence of experience with TCP Vegas?

 - Jonathan Morton

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-04 12:21 Bjørn Ivar Teigen
2022-08-04 21:45 ` Jonathan Morton [this message]
2022-08-04 23:24   ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-04 23:46     ` Daniel Sterling
2022-08-05  0:25       ` Dave Collier-Brown
2022-08-07 14:10       ` Jonathan Morton
2022-08-08 15:34         ` Michael Richardson

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