Re: PILC: prioritization

From: Reiner Ludwig (rludwig@huginn.CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 08:35:58 EST


>>I do wish that TCP could figure out for itself how to avoid growing
>>very long queues. As far as I know nobody has come up with a really
>>good algorithm to do it in the absence of SQ, or preferably ECN.
>
>I guess without explicit feedback from the network it should be impossible
>for TCP to figure that out.

Before this starts off a debate that I think wouldn't belong here: yes, it
is _not_ necessarily impossible. RTT increases can in theory be used as a
signal for congestion.

///Reiner



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