Re: [homenet] Updates to Homenet Architecture Principles doc

[Alexandru Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Le 15/06/2014 18:03, Juliusz Chroboczek a écrit :
>>>> "The inclusion of physical layer characteristics including bandwidth,
>>>> loss, and latency in path computation should be considered for
>>>> optimising communication in the homenet."
>
>> Should the text then rather say "Path selection in Homenet needs to be
>> more sophisticated than measuring pure hop count due to the use of
>> heterogeneous link technologies, and therefore the routing protocol should
>> be capable of utilising multiple link-dependent metrics, such as
>> bandwidth, delay, and link reliability", rather than mentioning
>> "optimised"?
>
> I'm happy with either.  The current text leaves it to the protocol people
> to decide what "optimising" means, but I also like the way you spell out
> the requirement.  If you'll allow me to indulge in some minor nit picking
> wrt. your suggested wording:
>
>   - you require "multiple [...] metrics", which is what we do in Babel, but
>     we certainly don't wish to prevent somebody from being smart enough to
>     design a single metric that works satisfactorily on all link layers;
>   - you use "bandwdith" where you mean "throughput" (yeah, I know, I'm
>     a pedant);
>   - I'm on a personal crusade against the utilisation of the verb "to utilise".
>
> So perhaps something like:
>
>    Due to the use of heterogeneous link technologies, path selection in
>    a homenet needs to be more refined than minimising hop count.  The
>    homenet routing protocol should be able to select paths according to
>    criteria such as latency, throughput, link reliability (e.g. measured
>    packet loss) or other performance metrics.

I agree.  Some of the new performance metrics which are unaccounted for, 
but present in deployments, is the quantity of radio energy in the air. 
  This is a real customer issue for which current deployed solutions are 
on/off knobs (I want a knob to turn off all WiFi in my home, turn off 
all cellular in my home, turn off all Bluetooth in my home, etc).  More 
sophisticated solutions would involve metrics which quantify this and 
compare meaningfully.  An example is the DAS parameter for mobile phones.

Alex

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> -- Juliusz
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