[9499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Congestion control/QoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dirk Harms-Merbitz)
Fri May 23 11:50:29 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:14:56 -0700
From: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@orlando.power.net>
Seems to me that a good way of limiting damage from runaway
networks/hosts would be a modifaction of RED (Random Early
Drop).
Controlled Early Drop (CED? I just made this up, suggestions?)
would allow a router to give a preference to connected
networks/hosts. Packets from certain networks would have a higher
chance of being dropped from a router queue then packets from
other networks.
CED can be used to price connections! You want 10%, you pay
x. You want 50%, you pay y. Everybody gets full speed when the
network is empty. When networks get congested everybody gets
what they paid for.
Seems like a better way of pricing Internet connections. Right
now way too many people are stuck behind small pipes. Most T1
customers use only a small fraction of their circuit. How do
you sell Ethernet connections? 100MB Ethernet connections?
while still protecting your network. CED looks like a solution
on this early Friday morning.
Comments?
Dirk
