I do not concern much on this because during low traffic period, it is often the case that the number of flows inside of TE tunnel are reduced dramatically over the network than the case that a flow size change dramatically between high traffic period and low traffic period. If operator want to consolidate the traffic and shutdown some component links during low traffic period, it should not cause BIG impact but bring the cost reduction. Of cause, operator will need to manage the frequency of switching to minimize the impact.
Lucy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kireeti Kompella Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Iftekhar Hussain; [email protected] Subject: Re: change to requirements (was Re: draft-so-yong-rtgwg-cl-framework) On May 24, 2012, at 10:56 , Curtis Villamizar wrote: > In the discussion of the CL framework, a suggestion was made to change > the requirements. Please comment on this suggestion. > > The following would be added somewhere. > > Load balancing MAY be used during sustained low traffic periods to > reduce the number of active component links for the purpose of power > reduction. Is the intent: Load balancing MAY be _changed_ during sustained low traffic periods to reduce the number of active component links ... ? If so, a warning ("this may result in some packets being reordered, and a change in delay and jitter of some flows") should probably be added. Kireeti. _______________________________________________ rtgwg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtgwg _______________________________________________ rtgwg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtgwg
