On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Nicholas Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Yup! It's protocol/app-agnostic You are right. Thanks! Regards, - Ping _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
