AW: [e2e] Queue size of routers

alok alok.dube at apara.com
Fri Jan 17 13:01:38 PST 2003


>
> - randomly pick a packet that carries TCP (red alert! a layer
>   violation straight ahead!  :)  )
> - remember a lot of things ... state all over the place:
>   source/destination, sequence numbers ... but that would
>   only have to be done sporadically! Maybe in a separate piece
>   of hardware.
> - monitor subsequent packets from the same flow - examine the
>   rate and sequence numbers ... it should be a little tricky,
>   but possible.
>
> Eventually, such a tool could be used to automatically adapt
> the maximum queue length...




try selling that to the RTSP/MMS and UDP folks

by the way ......guess what! that "adapt" to queue length is already called
"sliding window"!!!







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