[Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

[Ben Greear]

Measuring one or a few links provides a bit of data, but seems like if someone is trying to understand
a large and real network, then the OWD between point A and B needs to just be input into something much
more grand.  Assuming real-time OWD data exists between 100 to 1000 endpoint pairs, has anyone found a way
to visualize this in a useful manner?

Also, considering something better than ntp may not really scale to 1000+ endpoints, maybe round-trip
time is only viable way to get this type of data.  In that case, maybe clever logic could use things
like trace-route to get some idea of how long it takes to get 'onto' the internet proper, and so estimate
the last-mile latency.  My assumption is that the last-mile latency is where most of the pervasive
assymetric network latencies would exist (or just ping 8.8.8.8 which is 20ms from everywhere due to
$magic).

Endpoints could also triangulate a bit if needed, using some anchor points in the network
under test.

Thanks,
Ben

On 7/12/21 11:21 AM, Bob McMahon wrote:
> iperf 2 supports OWD and gives full histograms for TCP write to read, TCP connect times, latency of packets (with UDP), latency of "frames" with 
> simulated video traffic (TCP and UDP), xfer times of bursts with low duty cycle traffic, and TCP RTT (sampling based.) It also has support for sampling (per 
> interval reports) down to 100 usecs if configured with --enable-fastsampling, otherwise the fastest sampling is 5 ms. We've released all this as open source.
> 
> OWD only works if the end realtime clocks are synchronized using a "machine level" protocol such as IEEE 1588 or PTP. Sadly, *most data centers don't provide 
> sufficient level of clock accuracy and the GPS pulse per second * to colo and vm customers.
> 
> https://iperf2.sourceforge.io/iperf-manpage.html
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 10:40 AM David P. Reed <dpreed at deepplum.com <mailto:dpreed at deepplum.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On Monday, July 12, 2021 9:46am, "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood at comcast.com <mailto:Jason_Livingood at comcast.com>> said:
> 
>      > I think latency/delay is becoming seen to be as important certainly, if not a more direct proxy for end user QoE. This is all still evolving and I have
>     to say is a super interesting & fun thing to work on. :-)
> 
>     If I could manage to sell one idea to the management hierarchy of communications industry CEOs (operators, vendors, ...) it is this one:
> 
>     "It's the end-to-end latency, stupid!"
> 
>     And I mean, by end-to-end, latency to complete a task at a relevant layer of abstraction.
> 
>     At the link level, it's packet send to packet receive completion.
> 
>     But at the transport level including retransmission buffers, it's datagram (or message) origination until the acknowledgement arrives for that message being
>     delivered after whatever number of retransmissions, freeing the retransmission buffer.
> 
>     At the WWW level, it's mouse click to display update corresponding to completion of the request.
> 
>     What should be noted is that lower level latencies don't directly predict the magnitude of higher-level latencies. But longer lower level latencies almost
>     always amplfify higher level latencies. Often non-linearly.
> 
>     Throughput is very, very weakly related to these latencies, in contrast.
> 
>     The amplification process has to do with the presence of queueing. Queueing is ALWAYS bad for latency, and throughput only helps if it is in exactly the
>     right place (the so-called input queue of the bottleneck process, which is often a link, but not always).
> 
>     Can we get that slogan into Harvard Business Review? Can we get it taught in Managerial Accounting at HBS? (which does address logistics/supply chain queueing).
> 
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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com