I entirely agree with Daniel and Matthew here. TCP does an amazingly good
job on this. I've abstracted the TCP algorithm into a simple class here:
http://svn.iglance.com/svn/trunk/iglance/client/GTCP.h
http://svn.iglance.com/svn/trunk/iglance/client/GTCP.cpp
Basically, use GTCPServer to regulate the send speed and process
acknowledgements, and GTCPClient to construct and maintain the bit-vector
sent back with acknowledgements. It's not "real" TCP for a wide range of
reasons, but it might give you a start on constructing your own UDP
congestion-control mechanism.
-david
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Daniel Stutzbach
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: Peer-to-peer development.
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Hard question....
>
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 01:33:18PM -0800, Lemon Obrien wrote:
> > udp you know you'll need to do error correction if a packet is
> > missing; i do this by sending a 're-send' message; but, as some of
> > you know...you can not flod the network with thousands of
> > resends...especially if you relay messages to the destination
> > node...so, my question is; what is a good average mean time to keep
> > sending 're-sends'...i have it working with 500 milli-seconds and
> > 1000...i want fast?
>
> This is a complex topic and TCP does a lot behind the scenes to get it
> right. You need a dynamic mechanism to balance:
> - Sending packets as quickly as possible
> - But not so fast that they cause congestion and heavy packet loss
>
> Rather than starting from scratch, I recommend studying the
> way TCP handles this problem. Here are some good references:
>
> Van Jacobson, "Congestion Avoidance and Control", SIGCOMM, 1988
> http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf
>
> ^-- Van Jacobson encountered the problem you describe in the original
> implementation of BSD's TCP and fixed it.
>
> RFC 3782: The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3782.html
>
> ^-- Other researchers make a small tweak giving a significant
> performance boost
>
> W. Richard Stevens, TCP IP Illustrated, Volumes 1 and 2.
>
> ^-- Volume 2 walks through the BSD TCP source code and explains how it
> all works.
>
> The SACK extension to TCP may also be useful (especially if your
> application does not need in-order delivery), but it's best to get
> everything else working first before you worry too much about that.
>
> --
> Daniel Stutzbach Computer Science Ph.D Student
> http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr University of Oregon
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