On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd say most applications people actually use start behaving very badly > around 0.1 - 1% packet loss. VoIP MOS goes down, TCP starts to really get > affected etc. I'd imagine most people I interact with that design protocols > design protocols have in their mind that the packet loss rate is around this > level, not higher. > > So for me, the "contract" that 802.11 needs to fulfil for the IETF not to > start looking into changing IP for 802.11, is for 802.11 networks to deliver > broadcast and multicast packets with around 0.1% packet loss (or less) as a > design goal for normal operations.
The problem is we are dealing with more and more wireless devices, so the medium starts to become congested more easily. 0.1% - 1% packet loss (not frame loss) is possible for unicast, but 0.1% multicast packet loss is unrealistic. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
