[134052] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: TCP congestion control and large router buffers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed Dec 22 14:03:36 2010
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:03:29 -0800
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From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Jim Gettys" <jg@freedesktop.org>,
"Fred Baker" <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I don't know if you are referring to the "RED in a different light"
> paper: that was never published, though an early draft escaped and can
> be found on the net.
>=20
> "RED in a different light" identifies two bugs in the RED algorithm,
> and
> proposes a better algorithm that only depends on the link output
> bandwidth. That draft still has a bug.
I also noticed another paper published later that references "RED in a
different light":
http://www.icir.org/floyd/adaptivered/
Adaptive RED: An Algorithm for Increasing the Robustness of RED's Active
Queue Management (postscript, PDF).
Sally Floyd, Ramakrishna Gummadi, and Scott Shenker.
August 1, 2001.
And this one:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=3D10.1.1.98.1556&rep=3D=
rep
1&type=3Dpdf
July 15, 2002
Active Queue Management using Adaptive RED
Rahul Verma, Aravind Iyer and Abhay Karandikar
Abhay
But it doesn't look like aRED went anywhere
