Re: Comparing HTTP over QUIC header compression schemes

Mirja Kühlewind <mirja.kuehlewind@tik.ee.ethz.ch> Tue, 06 June 2017 09:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: Comparing HTTP over QUIC header compression schemes
From: Mirja Kühlewind <mirja.kuehlewind@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:14:59 +0200
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> Am 06.06.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>:
> 
> On 6 June 2017 at 10:59, Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> wrote:
>> (2) simulating loss rates much above 1% is likely going to be pretty uninteresting, given that QUIC (and TCP, FWIW) have congestion controllers that will struggle to even deliver useful throughputs in these cases
> 
> 
> That's an interesting point.  I've seen a presentation (that I can't
> find now, but I can try) that shows that packet loss in real-world
> scenarios approaches 2% in a great many cases.
> 

With TCP traffic or a traffic aggregate that includes TCP traffic?