On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Ping Pan wrote:

> Interesting bandwidth usage information. 
> 
> Here is a related draft on bandwidth provisioning and management from Comcast 
> (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-livingood-woundy-congestion-mgmt-01.txt): when 
> a user pumps traffic at 70-80% of provisioned thresholds for 15 minutes, 
> his/her packets will be added to a low-priority queue that may be dropped in 
> event of congestion.
> 
> I guess in the context of P2P, the tracker manager needs to swap seeds every 
> 15 minutes. :-) 

Actually, unless there is near starvation issues, it shouldn't be a problem:  
If the traffic usage drops below 70% due to the lower priority view, I would 
expect it to bounce back up in the next epoch.  If it doesn't, well, you are 
still >70% of listed capacity during your low priority time.


Basically, "Square wave" the traffic doesn't help if the thershold is set at 
any value >50%, because either you will stay in low proirity (but still be 
sending >50%), or be bounced back up to high priority anyway.

Thats one of the things I like about the scheme, both as a researcher and happy 
comcast customer: its very hard to game, but there is very little reason TO try 
to game it.



_______________________________________________
alto mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto

Reply via email to