But Sir i heard that UDP does not respond to congestion.Even though its packets are lost, it keeps sending packets at the same rate(unlike tcp) -- please answer this too: Does codel implement concept of marking(ECN) in ns2? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > With UDP, you're at the mercy of the application using it. With TCP, > you're merely at the mercy of the operating system. > > AQM acts on UDP packets in the same way as TCP packets - in fact it can't > tell them apart. So any application which detects and responds to UDP > packet loss in the same way as TCP does, will back off just the same. > > In practice, UDP is used for several different types of application: > > - simple request response, such as DNS and NTP, where eliminating TCP's > connection setup overhead is important. In any case, TCP's congestion > control doesn't get a chance to do any good on such s short-lived > connection. Packet loss in this situation is tolerated by retry, with > exponential backoff as an alternative congestion control measure. > > - latency sensitive and often isochronous (inelastic) flows like VoIP. > Packet loss may lead to a loss of quality, but there is little the > application can do to reduce its loss except dropping the call completely. > > - as a way to implement delay sensitive and pacific congestion control > algorithms, as in uTP. > > A flow isolation system, such as that in fq_codel, will often leave UDP > flows alone completely, because they tend not to be the ones using the bulk > of the bandwidth. Conversely, if a single UDP flow was responsible for the > congestion, it would let the other traffic bypass it. This is why fq_codel > is better than just plain codel, if you can get it. > > - Jonathan Morton >