Re: [rmcat] NADA Implementation in Mozilla

[Sergio Garcia Murillo <[e-mail]>]

On 08/12/2020 17:43, Sergio Mena wrote:
>
> Hi Sergio,
>
> Thanks a lot for your interest.
>
> It’s a great idea to be able to compare common statistics across 
> different bandwidth estimation algorithms.  In fact, in our code we 
> had to modify the logging process in the default algorithm to support 
> that, but the plotting part is less sophisticated than what you've 
> been sharing :-)
>
> Would you be willing to hook (and modify as needed) the logging 
> mechanism in our Firefox branch to your repo? We can explain where all 
> logs are located.
>
I am out on vacations on December, but may try to get something done 
when I get back to work on January ;)


> In one of our algorithm's modes -- NADA-OWD -- we are indeed still 
> using transport-wide cc feedback. We had also implemented the new CCFB 
> format (in past hackathons) in another branch, but we never came round 
> to merging both branches.
>

Transport wide cc would be fine, if we could try to hool the logging in 
the correct place we could get also some data from the default bwe 
algorithm and compare both.

>
> About how we carried out the testing scenarios, they were mostly 
> manual, i.e., having actual calls between two of us, then collecting 
> and processing the logs from the sender. For more details on this, 
> please check our update at IETF-106 
> (https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/106/slides/slides-106-rmcat-nada-update-01). 
> If someone could write scripts to automate this, that would be of 
> course awesome!
>
I did some basic test with tc on the past, but it would be great if we 
could find the appropriate parameters to cover the test cases defined by 
the group.


Best regards

Sergio