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Re: Queue Length - Buffer Size

  • From: Patrick Hurley <patrick.hurley@wco.com>
  • Date: 28 Apr 1998 13:17:04 GMT

Laurent Jaussi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In the ACTS project EXPERT, we have made an experimental study on
> the performance of TCP over UBR with EPD (several TCP sources
> multiplexed at a bottleneck). It turns out that with a good TCP
> implemantation you need
> little more than one TCP window size to achieve good performance
> in terms of goodput and fairness.
> 
> A report on these experiments can be found at:
> http://tcomwww.epfl.ch/~jaussi/icatm98.pdf
> 
> The length of the burts that arrives to the buffer naturally depends
> on the IP MTU which limits the size of the IP packets, and also on the
> TCP window size and TCP acknowledgement strategy (delayed or non-delayed
> ACK).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Laurent
> 
> Patrick Hurley wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone done research or know of research that exists that studies
> > the number of cells that a queue must tolerated before it drops IP
> > packets?
> >
> > I have seen distributions where it shows that most (average) bursts are
> > for 5 cells and the maximum burst is for 93 or 100 cells.
> >
> > I know of the self-similar paper, that is not what I am looking for.
This is what I am looking for, thank you.
-- 
Patrick Hurley
KP-IT Network
Technology Planning
Kaiser Permanente Health Plan
http://www.wco.com/~phurley
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