On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Alan Jenkins
<alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
are we sure - that's a fairly different algorithm and different expansion of
the acronym...
Yes it is very different,
but it appears to have had the germ of at
least one of the good ideas in the soon to be published BBR.
"BBR detects bufferbloat by comparing its calculated correlation to a
configurable threshold (e.g., 90%) and declaring bufferbloat whenever
the value exceeds the threshold."
"Upon detecting bufferbloat, BBR immediately sets the TCP cwnd to the
window estimate, rather than gradually reducing the sending rate as
in, for example, Proportional Rate Reduction [19]. Immediately
changing the cwnd has two advantages. 27 First, it stops packet
transmissions immediately and prevents further exacerbating the delay.
When the transmissions resume with the reduced cwnd, they should
experience shorter queuing delay.
*Second, drastic changes in sending rate should result in sharp
differences in observed RTT, increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in
the observations and improving the correlation calculation*."
I dunno, I'm just reading tea leaves here!