[Iccrg] New draft for review: draft-mayutan-ledbat-congestionarchitecture-00.txt

[Mayutan A.]

Hi Lisong,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I will incorporate the changes you suggested
and submit a new version before the -01 deadline.

Thanks once again,
Mayutan

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Lisong Xu <xu at cse.unl.edu> wrote:

> Mayutan, Xiaoming, and K. K.,
>
> Thanks for your work. Below are some quick comments.
>
> 1. Section 3 "Design goals". There are actually 8 goals: 1, 2, ..., 8
> instead of 1, 1, ... ,7.
>
> 2. It would be better to explain what "network friendly" means.
>
> 3. It would be better to explain the difference between "TCP", "Standard
> TCP", and "network friendly TCP". Are they referring to the same TCP or
> different TCP's?
>
> Thanks
> Lisong
>
>
>
> On 3/3/2010 1:40 PM, Mayutan A. wrote:
>
>>
>> We have submitted a new draft to the LEDBAT WG and are planning to make
>> a short presentation at the LEDBAT WG and the ICCRG.
>> We are looking forward to all your comments.
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mayutan-ledbat-congestionarchitecture-00
>>
>> The basic idea is to have an architecture framework, to enable the
>> standardization of the various mechanisms of a network friendly
>> congestion control such as available bandwidth estimation, flow control
>> and congestion detection separately. This could result in pluggable
>> components that could be used in the overall congestion control
>> protocol/s. Though the draft is intended for the LEDBAT WG, it could
>> easily be extended to congestion control protocols in general.
>>
>> Abstract:
>>
>>    The Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) working group is
>>    considering protocols for an alternative congestion control protocol
>>    that enables a delay-insensitive networking application to minimize
>>
>>    the extra queueing delay it causes to other applications because of
>>    additional queueing at the bottleneck, when these connections
>>    carrying traffic for such applications attempt to use the available
>>    bandwidth.
>>
>>
>>
>>    This document proposes an architectural framework for LEDBAT
>>    congestion control mechanisms, based on existing work on congestion
>>    control protocols and the requirements of the LEDBAT working group.
>>
>>    The architectural framework consists of a LEDBAT-congestion control
>>    (LEDBAT-CC) suite that provides flexibility in utilizing different
>>    components for providing congestion control for transport connections
>>
>>    carrying delay-insensitive traffic.  The LEDBAT-CC suite of protocols
>>    is envisioned to support the multiple alternative mechanisms for
>>    bandwidth estimation, congestion detection and indication and end-
>>    system flow control to comprise a network friendly congestion
>>
>>    avoidance protocol.
>>
>>
>>    This document is inspired by the need to standardize the various
>>    components that constitute the network friendly congestion control
>>    protocol to avoid having to individually standardize a multitude of
>>
>>    distinct and monolithic solutions.
>>
>>
>> Feedback is welcome,
>> Mayutan Arumaithurai
>>
>>
>>
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