On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Daniel Havey wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:49 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Daniel Havey wrote:
We know that (see Kathy and Van's paper) that AQM algorithms only work
when they are placed at the slowest queue. However, the AQM is placed
at the queue that is capable of providing 8 Mbps and this is not the
slowest queue. The AQM algorithm will not work in these conditions.
so the answer is that you don't deploy the AQM algorithm only at the
perimeter, you deploy it much more widely.
Eventually you get to core devices that have multiple routes they can use to
get to a destination. Those devices should notice that one route is getting
congested and start sending the packets through alternate paths.
Now, if the problem is that the aggregate of inbound packets to your
downstreams where you are the only path becomes higher than the available
downstream bandwidth, you need to be running an AQM to handle things.
David Lang
Hmmmm, that is interesting. There might be a problem with processing
power at the core though. It could be difficult to manage all of
those packets flying through the core routers.
And that is the question that people are looking at.
But part of the practical question is at what speeds do you start to run into
problems?
the core of the Internet is already doing dynamic routing of packets, spreading
them across multiple parallel paths (peering points have multiple 10G links
between peers), so this should be more of the same, with possibly a small
variation to use more expensive paths if the cheap ones are congested.
But as you move out from there towards the edge, the packet handling
requirements drop rather quickly, and I'll bet that you don't have to get very
far out before you can start affording to implement AQM algorithms. I'm betting
that you reach that point before you get to the point in the network where you
no longer have multiple paths available
David does bring up an interesting point though. The ASQM algorithm
was originally designed to solve the "Uncooperative ISP" problem. I
coined the phrase, but, you can fill in your own adjective to fit your
personal favorite ISP :^)
The paper doesn't indicate this because I got roasted by a bunch of
reviewers for it, but, why not use an ASQM like algorithm other places
than the edge. Suppose you are netflix and your ISP is shaping your
packets? You cant do anything about the bandwidth reduction, but, you
can at least reduce the queuing...Just food for thought. :^)
unfortunantly if you are trapped by the ISP/netflix peering war, you reducing
the number of packets in flight for yourself isn't going to help any. It would
have to happen on the netflix side of the bottleneck.
David Lang
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