TCP congestion control and large router buffers

George Bonser gbonser at seven.com
Wed Dec 22 19:03:29 UTC 2010


> I don't know if you are referring to the "RED in a different light"
> paper: that was never published, though an early draft escaped and can
> be found on the net.
> 
> "RED in a different light" identifies two bugs in the RED algorithm,
> and
> proposes a better algorithm that only depends on the link output
> bandwidth.  That draft still has a bug.

I also noticed another paper published later that references "RED in a
different light":


http://www.icir.org/floyd/adaptivered/


Adaptive RED: An Algorithm for Increasing the Robustness of RED's Active
Queue Management (postscript, PDF).
Sally Floyd, Ramakrishna Gummadi, and Scott Shenker.
August 1, 2001.

And this one:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98.1556&rep=rep
1&type=pdf

July 15, 2002

Active Queue Management using Adaptive RED
Rahul Verma, Aravind Iyer and Abhay Karandikar
Abhay

But it doesn't look like aRED went anywhere






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