On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, grenville armitage wrote:
Kathy, Dave,
Thanks for the +ve comments!
On 08/04/2016 03:03, Kathleen Nichols wrote:
Nicely laid out and reported, but I have a question for the authors. At the
top of section II. D. it says:
"Instantaneous’ throughput is an approximation derived
from the actual bytes transferred during constant windows
of time."
Is the "actual bytes transferred" the sum of the packet sizes through
the link or is it the actual advance in sequence number bytes?
Simplistic sum of the IP payload lengths per unit time as seen at the
destination's NIC. (We took the line of least resistance for this tech
report. But yes, the advance of sequence num. per unit time would be a more
precise estimate of the useful flow of bytes as experienced by the
application.)
I would argue that bytes seen by the wire (or any router in the middle) is a far
more useful thing to track than what the application sees.
If one application is layered inside 5 different VPNs or other encapsulation,
while another is native on the wire, we care about the fairness of how the wire
is used.
If we have something like ATM where transmissions are in quantums, we need to
take this into account.
If we have something like wifi where a transmit slot is X overhead + Y*bytes
(where 2-3K * Y = X or worse), if you don't take the overhead into account and
just look at the application level data bytes passed you end up with such a
distorted picture of what's going on that it's almost useless.
David Lang
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