[Bloat] Goodput fraction w/ AQM vs bufferbloat

[Constantine Dovrolis]

Hi, I suggest you look at the following paper for a more
general version of this formula (equation 3), which includes the
effect of limited capacity and/or limited receive-window:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Constantinos.Dovrolis/Papers/f235-he.pdf

The paper also discusses common mistakes when this formula is used
to predict the throughput of a TCP connection - the basic
idea is that we cannot use the loss rate *before* the start
of a TCP connection to predict what its throughput will be.
A large TCP connection that is not limited by its receive-window
can of course cause an increase in the loss rate of the path
that it traverses (see sections 3.2 - 3.4)

regards
Constantine

On 5/7/2011 8:15 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 7 May 2011 19:39:22 +0300
> Jonathan Morton<chromatix99 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> On 7 May, 2011, at 1:10 am, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>
>>> Rate<= (MSS/RTT)*(1 / sqrt{p})
>>>
>>> where:
>>> Rate: is the TCP transfer rate or throughputd
>>> MSS: is the maximum segment size (fixed for each Internet path, typically 1460 bytes)
>>> RTT: is the round trip time (as measured by TCP)
>>> p: is the packet loss rate.
>>
>> So if the loss rate is 1.0 (100%), the throughput is MSS/RTT.  If the loss rate is 0, the throughput goes to infinity.  That doesn't seem right to me.
>
> If loss rate is 0 there is no upper bound on TCP due to loss.
> There are other limits on TCP throughput like window size but not limits
> because of loss.
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