I saw Dave's tests on WMM vs. without, and started thinking about test setups for systems when QoS is in use (using classification, not just SQM/AQM).
There are a LOT of assumptions made when QoS systems based on marked packets is used:
- That traffic X can starve others
- That traffic X is more/most important
Our test tools are not particularly good at anything other than hammering the network (UDP or TCP). At least TCP has a built-in congestion control. I've seen many UDP (or even raw IP) test setups that didn't look anything like "real" traffic.
I know Dave has wanted an isochronous traffic tool that could simulate voip traffic (with in-band one-way latency/jitter/loss measurement capabilities).
What other tools do we need, for replicating traffic types that match how these QoS types in wifi are meant to be used? I think we're doing an excellent job of showing how they can be abused. Abusing is pretty easy, at this point (rrul, iPerf, etc).
-Aaron Wood