Dear Salman,
> In addition to provisioned link capacity, it is useful for end points
> to
> determine how much of their upload/download quota has been consumed
> (assuming ISPs that have a montly bandwidth cap). Like provisioned link
> capacity, this information is *indirectly* used by the peers t
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Enrico Marocco wrote:
You are probably thinking a centralized ALTO server. There is no reason
why peers cannot act as ALTO servers which inturn obtain their
link capacity information from ISP managed ALTO servers.
Uh? I'm thinking of a protocol clients can use to query serv
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Lars Eggert wrote:
On 2009-6-3, at 21:14, Salman Abdul Baset wrote:
Your congestion example is spot on. Provisioned link capacity (upstream
and downstream) is not very helpful for peer selection unless the current
load on the link is considered.
Agreed, but I understood th
Lars Eggert wrote:
> On 2009-6-4, at 10:20, Enrico Marocco wrote:
>
>> It seems reasonable to allow the ALTO protocol to carry, in addition
>> to topology and cost-related information, also other information like
>> minimum and perhaps estimated latency (I'll let others argue whether
>> both wo
On 2009-6-4, at 10:20, Enrico Marocco wrote:
It seems reasonable to allow the ALTO protocol to carry, in addition
to
topology and cost-related information, also other information like
minimum and perhaps estimated latency (I'll let others argue whether
both would be feasible or not) about the t
John Leslie wrote:
>> If we were to design a protocol that "asks" the gateway about current
>> status, and the gateway reports that the P2P app can "go for it" with
>> respect to available bandwidth, it's possible that a voice call from a
>> SIP endpoint somewhere on the home network may star
Salman Abdul Baset wrote:
> Nodes (clients) can use the spare capacity (provisioned - current load) of
> relay candidates as a metric to guide their search of relays. I think
> such a usage is peer selection optimization. What do you think?
Ok, I'm totally lost now. I thought your
On 2009-6-3, at 22:11, Salman Abdul Baset wrote:
Nevertheless, it is not impossible to use the number of [TCP] bits
sent
and received from a machine on which an ALTO enabled application is
running to
gauge current load. Yes, this is not a precise number but is
reasonable
enough to be useful
On 2009-6-3, at 21:14, Salman Abdul Baset wrote:
Your congestion example is spot on. Provisioned link capacity
(upstream
and downstream) is not very helpful for peer selection unless the
current
load on the link is considered.
Agreed, but I understood that that was the information you were
