QoS for system critical packets on wireless

[Dave Taht]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 11:00 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Jim Gettys<jg at freedesktop.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/22/2011 11:17 AM, Dave Taht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The biggest fallout of the diffserv work I was trying was observing
>>>> that most packets fell into one of 3 buckets:
>>>>
>>>> 1) System control and 'MICE' are<    less than 1% of all packets. Mice
>>>> includes a bunch of messages like ARP, NTP, UDP, and most of the icmp6
>>>> portion of the stack, in what I'm doing currently. Mice are
>>>> desperately needed for the network to continue to function.
>>>
>>> I'd not use this term: please call it something else.
>>>
>>> Van and Kathy have talked about HTTP "mice" and "elephant" TCP flows for
>>> a
>>> long time, and you'll terminally confuse everyone if you call these items
>>> "mice".
>>
>> I totally agree that overloading 'mice' is the wrong thing to do. mice
>> is a very useful category defined as 'short tcp streams', and well
>> discussed that way in the existing TCP literature.
>>
>> I think I've settled on ANT, but lack a suitable backronym. Ants do
>> useful stuff, taking care of cleaning up and organizing the universe.
>> They are orderly, and hard to see,
>> and can lift enormous things despite their size.
>> Given my radio background I dislike it because it's short for antenna,
>> but 'bee is confusing, and hard to spell, bird is the name of a
>> routing daemon, and I'm plumb out of ideas lacking other analogies...
>>
>>
>
> I like Bees, myself.   They pollinate everything (a good analogy to what
> DNS, DHCP, et. al. do).

Too easily confused with BE, is what I meant by 'hard to spell'. I did
come up with a backronym for BEE, tho - 'Best Effort, Extreme'.

But I think I will go with Ants, at least for now.

>            - Jim
>
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