Dave Collier-Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Only being able to use 20% of the bandwidth is clearly not good (on 4G
    > the same algorithms achieve
    > 50-70%). 
BBR<https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/03/31/bbr-congestion-based-congestion-control/>
    > does much better with 5G, achieving 82.5% utilization. An investigation
    > reveals the problem to be caused by buffer sizes. In the radio portion
    > of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion
    > of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned
    > cloud server). At the same time the download capacity of 5G is about 5x
    > greater: "i.e., the capacity growth is incommensurate with the buffer
    > size expansion in the wireline network." Doubling the wireline buffer
    > size would alleviate the problem. BBR does better because it is less
    > sensitive to packet loss/delay.

Is this with one flow or many thousands one would expect a real network to have?

Since we want buffers to be empty, it's unclear to me if TxOps are really
being lost, or what.


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