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Why is it actually the case that the sender has to care about congestion and not the link itself?
by 3rd3 12y ago
Why is it actually the case that the sender has to care about congestion and not the link itself?
- contingencies 12y agoSome researchers have argued eloquently that network operators and implementers should modify the infrastructure to have shorter buffers or intelligent queue-management schemes, such as the recent CoDel and separate queues for different flows. But modifying every place there is too much buffering — every LTE base station, every LTE baseband chip inside a cell phone, and every cable modem — may be an uphill battle. Our work demonstrates that in some cases, comparable or higher performance is possible without modifying network infrastructure at all—just by modifying the contending endpoints.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- 3rd3 12y agoI understand that changing all links is more work than updating clients, but why did developers of TCP/IP decide to do it this way?
- contingencies 12y agoUpgrade cost of network complexity: The Internet has smart edges ... and a simple core. Adding an new Internet service is just a matter of distributing an application ... Compare this to voice, where one has to upgrade the entire core. - RFC3439 (2002)