[Bloat] RED 13 years later

[Kathleen Nichols]

A big issue is that "average queue length" was and is a terrible 
indicator of congestion. But I think the first "bug" Van was referring 
to was the original RED "control law" - I asked him why he thought it 
would work as it really ends up looking like a step function which your 
first control theory course will show is rather primitive. The thing is, 
that TCP is really robust and almost anything will "work" on long-lived 
TCP connections. Which is what everyone used for testing.

On 2/10/24 9:10 AM, Kenneth Porter via Bloat wrote:
> I didn't know what RED was and had to look it up. For others new to the 
> lingo:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_early_detection
> 
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