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	Title		: Reorder Density and Reorder Buffer-occupancy Density - Metrics for Packet Reordering Measurements
	Author(s)	: A. Jayasumana, et al.
	Filename	: draft-jayasumana-reorder-density-08.txt
	Pages		: 23
	Date		: 2007-7-23

This document presents two metrics for packet reordering, namely,
Reorder Density (RD) and Reorder Buffer-occupancy Density (RBD).  A 
threshold is used to clearly define when a packet is considered lost,
to bound computational complexity at O(N), and to keep the memory.
   requirement for evaluation independent of N, where N is the length of
   the packet sequence.  RD is a comprehensive metric that captures the
   characteristics of reordering, while RBD evaluates the sequences from
   the point of view of recovery from reordering.  These metrics are
   simple to compute yet comprehensive in their characterization of
   packet reordering.  The measures are robust and orthogonal to packet
   loss and duplication.

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