[e2e] more about averaging

[Christophe Diot]

> > What Hollot says is right. Averaging the queue makes much more difficult to
> > control the queue level. In control terms is like to add another pole in the
> > feedback loop.
> > An interesting paper is also "Reasons not to deploy RED" by J. Bolot et. al.
> > ( at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/337634.html).
> > This paper experiments average vs. instantaneous queue RED dropping.
> >
> ...
> 
> There are a lot of interesting things to look at in RED-type work and
> one of them is to closely examine the quality of the experiments
> that are done and cited in papers. Unless the above cited paper has
> changed since someone at Cisco asked me to look at it, all I can
> say is if your network looks like that of their experiments (set up,
> RTTs, traffic mix), then perhaps the results apply. There is a body
> of measurement work that shows that most networks look rather different
> from this. I'm personally interested in results that show some
> robustness, but this may not be currently fashionable.
> 
>         Kathie Nichols

:-)

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