Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Cameron Byrne wrote: In the 3GPP case of GSM/UMTS/LTE, the wireless network will never drop the packet, by design. According to the end to end argument, that's simply impossible, because intermediate equipments holding packets not confirmed by the next hop may corrupt the packets or suddenly

RE: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-06 Thread l.wood
/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Masataka Ohta [mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp] Sent: 06 March 2013 11:37 To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: 3GPP has to never drop a packet because it's doing zero-header compression. has to never? Even though it must, when it goes down. Lose a bit, lose everything. You totally deny FEC. Wow!!! And ROHC is an IETF product. I'm pretty sure the saving on headers is

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
Martin, An article like this is the best reason why we should never finally resolve the buffer bloat issue: Doing that would take away the opportunity for generations of researcher to over and over regurgitate the same proposed improvements and gain PhDs in the process. I mean the Internet wold

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 07:52:56AM +, Eggert, Lars wrote: On Mar 4, 2013, at 19:44, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: The Transport Area has all of the groups that deal with transport protocols that need to do congestion control. Further, the (current) split of work

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Eliot Lear
Roger, On 3/4/13 7:20 PM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an educational way - Why is congestion control so important? And where does it apply? ... :-) That basic question is a very important one to ask from time to time. Others have

RE: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Martin Rex Sent: 05 March 2013 00:42 To: bra...@isi.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director) Bob Braden wrote

RE: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread l.wood
? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director) I've no idea about the example quoted, but I can see some of their motivation. TCP's assumptions (really simplified) that loss of packet = congestion = backoff aren't necessarily so in a wireless network, where packets can be lost without

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 05/03/2013 11:55, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: I've no idea about the example quoted, but I can see some of their motivation. TCP's assumptions (really simplified) that loss of packet = congestion = backoff aren't necessarily so in a wireless network, where packets can be lost

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/5/2013 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 05/03/2013 11:55, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: I've no idea about the example quoted, but I can see some of their motivation. TCP's assumptions (really simplified) that loss of packet = congestion = backoff aren't necessarily so in a

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 3/5/2013 10:40 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: On 3/5/2013 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 05/03/2013 11:55, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: I've no idea about the example quoted, but I can see some of their motivation. TCP's assumptions (really simplified) that loss of packet =

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Cameron Byrne
:42 To: bra...@isi.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director) Bob Braden wrote: On 3/4/2013 10:20 AM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an educational way - Why

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 3/5/2013 3:01 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: In the 3GPP case of GSM/UMTS/LTE, the wireless network will never drop the packet, by design. It will just delay the packet as it gets resent through various checkpoints and goes through various rounds of FEC. The result is delay, TCP penalties

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Richardson
rgensen == rgensen Roger writes: rgensen I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will rgensen answer in an educational way - Why is congestion control so rgensen important? And where does it apply? ... :-) The Transport Area has all of the groups that deal with transport

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-04 Thread Bob Braden
On 3/4/2013 10:20 AM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an educational way - Why is congestion control so important? And where does it apply? ... :-) Ouch. Because without it (as we learned the hard way in the late 1980s) \ the Internet

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-04 Thread Martin Rex
Bob Braden wrote: On 3/4/2013 10:20 AM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an educational way - Why is congestion control so important? And where does it apply? ... :-) Ouch. Because without it (as we learned the hard way in the

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-04 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Mar 4, 2013, at 19:44, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: The Transport Area has all of the groups that deal with transport protocols that need to do congestion control. Further, the (current) split of work means that all of the groups that need congestion oversight would be