Re: [Aeon] One question regarding the "Scavenger class"

"Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com> Tue, 13 May 2014 16:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Aeon] One question regarding the "Scavenger class"
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Yes, it's effectively less-than-best-effort.

I think the term originated with 
http://qos.internet2.edu/wg/wg-documents/qbss-definition.txt.

Paul

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From: "Jose Saldana" <jsaldana@unizar.es>
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Sent: 5/13/2014 12:11:03 PM
Subject: [Aeon] One question regarding the "Scavenger class"

>Hi,
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>I have been reading draft-eckel-aeon-use-cases-01, and I was wondering: 
>is “Scavenger class” the same as “Less than best effort” traffic, as 
>defined in [1]?:
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>“The usual definition of the LBE service is the following: in the event 
>of congestion, all LBE traffic must be discarded before any BE packet 
>is dropped.”
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>Jose
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>[1] Y. Hayel, D. Ros and B. Tuffin, “Less-than-Best-Effort Services: 
>Pricing and Scheduling”, IEEE Proc. of INFOCOM, 2004 
>(http://www.irisa.fr/dionysos/pages_perso/tuffin/Publis/scheduling_infocom.pdf)
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