[Bloat] [tsvwg] how much of a problem is buffer bloat today?

[Oliver Hohlfeld]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:04:21PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> Also, if you measure the impact of bufferbloat in terms of how many
> seconds a day the line is impacted, you get a horribly skewed view of
> the impact.

I agree that such a temporal view will skew the results. The approach
taken in Mark Allman's paper is to measure the magnitude by measuring
the number of affected packets relative to the total number of packets.
This implies the amount of time a user can potentially suffer from
buffer bloat when actively using the line. It's not relative to when
the user is idle.

Oliver