[Bloat] RED against bufferbloat

[Sebastian Moeller]

Hi Michael,

On Feb 25, 2015, at 10:18 , Michael Welzl <michawe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> Two points,
> 
> below...
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> [...]
> Why exactly did you think we should have looked at asymmetric paths? To study what?
> ( I'm not debating that asymmetric paths play out different in behavior. I'm just saying that one needs to be clear about what exactly is being investigated, and why.)
> 
> [...]

	I have an opinion on that: because a) asymmetric is the general case and symmetric the special case b) a large percentage of end-nodes sit behind asymmetric paths that often are the bottlenecks that cause the queues for AQM to act on, so any AQM better work well in that situation to avoid spending its live in the ivory tower ;). So to put it in different words, as reality has an "asymmetry bias” ;) 


Best Regards