<div dir="ltr">I'm thinking ping may not be ideal for benchmarking OFDMA effects on latency. Also, the end/end latency preferred seems to me the socket write() to final socket read() per that write(). Also, for TCP, there are the connect times. I realize network stack guys focus on stack related measurements, e.g. RTT, but the latencies users experience include the application level and system level os interactions.<br><br>Just some food or thought.<br><br>Bob<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:07 PM Dave Taht <<a href="mailto:dave.taht@gmail.com">dave.taht@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">throughput and latency are interrelated, whats the throughput?<br>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:40 PM Tim Higgins <<a href="mailto:tim@smallnetbuilder.com" target="_blank">tim@smallnetbuilder.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi all,<br>
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> I finally have my testbed working the way I want and am starting to run tests to see if OFDMA does anything useful.<br>
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> This will all be covered in detail in an upcoming SmallNetBuilder article. But I wanted to sanity check something with this esteemed group.<br>
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> The tests are basically the flent rtt_fair_var up and down tests ported to the octoScope platform I use for WiFi testing.<br>
> The initial work was done on flent, with a lot of hand-holding from Toke. (Thank you, Toke!)<br>
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> Using 4 Intel AX200 STAs on Win10. iperf3 is running traffic using TCP/IP with unthrottled bandwidth. I've taken Bjørn's idea and have each STA using a different DSCP priority level, but with TCP/IP traffic, not UDP. I'm sticking to using CS0-7 equivalents and confirmed that the iperf3 --dscp values properly translate to the intended WiFi priority levels. Each STA has a different priority, either CS0,3,5 or 6 (best effort, excellent effort, video and voice).<br>
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> Ping is used to measure latency and always runs from AP to STA. Only TCP/IP traffic direction is reversed between the down and uplink tests.<br>
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> One thing that jumps out immediately is that uplink latencies are *much* lower than downlink, with either OFDMA on or off. Attached are three examples. The CDFs are average latency of the 4 STAs.<br>
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> The NETGEAR R7800 is a 4x4 AC Qualcomm-based. I'm using this as a baseline product.<br>
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> The NETGEAR RAX15 is 2x2 AX Broadcom-based. You can see what I mean when I say OFDMA doesn't help.<br>
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> Does this much difference between up and downlink latency pass the sniff test?<br>
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> Tim<br>
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