[Iccrg] Proposal for ICCRG operations

[Kewin Stoeckigt]

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>    I don't believe there is one. :^(

Indeed, this is rather tricky.

> 
>    To me, congestion is the condition where a packet can't be sent
> "immediately" (meaning perhaps that it can't be queued as the next
> packet to be sent).

See, for me this would not be congestion at all. I understand congestion 
as some sort of "sudden interruption"...that means, at one point, 
packets are delayed (higher delay than usual/expected), dropped, etc. 
However, if the delay = constant (without packet loss), I wouldn't call 
this necessarily congestion.

But as you said, it is tricky to find a common definition for congestion.

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>    It's not quite that bad: if an index of "congestion" doesn't define
> what it's measuring, then that index is meaningless. However, I believe
> we can make use of indices which measure different things.

Maybe we should go away from the single word "congestion" and describe a 
type of congestion, which then could be measured. By this I mean that 
lets say congestion A describes a behavior where packets are just 
delayed, but not dropped, congestion B describes actual packet loss, and 
so forth. Coming up with indices for the different types, A, B, etc., 
could the lead to some sort of measurement index for a certain congestion.

Just my few thoughts on a Sunday afternoon with coffee....

Kewin

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