[Bloat] Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 17:45:12 EDT 2022


> On 4 Aug, 2022, at 3:21 pm, Bjørn Ivar Teigen via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> Main take-away (as I understand it) is something like "In real-world networks, jitter adds noise to the end-to-end delay such that any algorithm trying to infer congestion from end-to-end delay measurements will occasionally get it wrong and this can lead to starvation". Seems related to Jaffe's work on network power (titled "Flow control power is non-decentralizable"). 

Hasn't this been known for many years, as a consequence of experience with TCP Vegas?

 - Jonathan Morton


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