[Starlink] Re: Dissecting Starlink: head-drop queuing, AQM, and flow dynamics (SIGCOMM '26)

[Kathleen Nichols <nichols@pollere.net>]

This is interesting work, thanks. But I want to point out that, if 
indeed the "Loss frequency grows with queue occupancy" that isn't CoDel 
which increases loss frequency with a persistent sojourn delay. (A large 
point of CoDel was to get away from queue occupancy as a congestion signal.)

	Kathie

On 7/22/26 2:00 AM, Nitinder Mohan via Starlink wrote:
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>    *   There is a real AQM that deliberately drops to control occupancy. The uplink is aggressive and holds flows below a quarter of physical capacity. The downlink is more permissive. Loss frequency grows with queue occupancy, and the load-dependent profile looks closer to CoDel or adaptive RED than fixed RED.
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