Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

FWIW, I'd like to add another point to the discussion.

There has been recent concern with "buffer bloat", where home OS's, home 
routers, etc. all have either poorly optimized or incomplete 
implementations of fair queuing and socket buffering.

The basic problem can be seen as follows:
	- run a continuous ping anywhere
	- start a large upload

The latencies go from 10-100 milliseconds up t 0.5-5 seconds. This 
happens because the outbound buffers get stuffed with data.

Although a single connection can cause this to happen (it optimizes for 
rate, not throughput), we know how to handle that - use RED, fair 
queuing, etc.

I'm wondering if increasing the IW can defeat these corrective measures, 
and recreate the problem in a way that has no effective solution.

Has that been considered?

Joe