Aggregate Traffic Performance with Active Queue Management and Drop from Tail

2/9/01


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Aggregate Traffic Performance with Active Queue Management and Drop from Tail

Active Queue Management

Original RED

Revised RED

Gentle RED

Experiments

Traffic characteristics

Testbed (CISCO routers)

Testbed (Dummynet)

What is Dummynet?

Metrics observed

Aggregate goodput (long-lived TCP)

256 short and long lived TCP connections

Consecutive packet losses (long lived)

…if we use “optimal” RED parameters

Consecutive packet losses (realistic traffic mix)

Queuing behavior (256 long lived connections)

Queuing behavior (256 connections, realistic mix)

In summary ...

From the ISP standpoint ...

GRED-I with exponential dropping function

About Fair Queuing ...

Number of flows on an OC-3 link

Author: Kevin C. Ebel

Email: nnn