[tsv-area] support for fair-sharing in home gateways?

2009-08-08 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all, Has anyone raised the potential need for fair-sharing in home gateways? I.e., to prevent a single home user from swamping out another home user? (we saw this in a gateway Lars, Yu-shun Wang, and I developed, FWIW, when we used it to support

Re: [tsv-area] [homegate] Amount of packet buffering in home gateways

2009-08-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Lars Eggert wrote: If we assume that FIFO queuing will be used, yes, the buffer size has a large, direct impact on the observable behavior. Not so for various AQM schemes (RED, etc.). Since my personal preference would be to recommend something smarter than FIFO, I don't se

Re: [tsv-area] [homegate] Amount of packet buffering in home gateways

2009-08-08 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, these are all good points. I wanted to repeat something I said at the mike in Stockholm which I think is essential: We cannot make a recommendation for a certain buffer size without also saying which queuing scheme we recommend for that buffer. If we assume that FIFO queuing will be u