[Bloat] [aqm] DOCSIS 3.1 support for AQM

Bless, Roland (TM) roland.bless at kit.edu
Thu Oct 31 04:25:25 EDT 2013


Hi Greg,

Am 30.10.2013 21:13, schrieb Greg White:
> Cable modems are required to implement a variant of PIE (detailed in
> Annex M of MAC and Upper Layer Protocols Interface Specification
> <http://www.cablelabs.com/specifications/CM-SP-MULPIv3.1-101-131029.pdf>) as
> the default AQM.  Modem vendors are free to implement additional
> algorithms if they so choose.  CMTSs are required to implement an AQM
> meeting certain high-level criteria, but the choice of algorithm is left
> to the implementer.

Thanks for the information. I'd be interested in why you have chosen
PIE, e.g., instead of sfq-CoDel. Any pointers to evaluation
reports/results? Last time I saw a presentation on this it seemed
that CoDel was performing quite well.

Regards,
 Roland




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