On 12/06/15 02:44, David Lang wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Sebastian Moeller wrote:
On Jun 11, 2015, at 03:05 , Alan Jenkins
<alan.christopher.jenk...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/06/15 21:54, Sebastian Moeller wrote:
One solution would be if ISPs made sure upload is 100% provisioned.
Could be cheaper than for (the higher rate) download.
Not going to happen, in my opinion, as economically unfeasible
for a publicly traded ISP. I would settle for that approach as long
as the ISP is willing to fix its provisioning so that
oversubscription episodes are reasonable rare, though.
not going to happen on any network, publicly traded or not.
Sure, I'm flailing. Note this was in the context of AQSM as Daniel
describes it. (Possibly misnamed given it only drops. All the queuing
is "underneath" AQSM, "in the MAC layer" as the paper says :).
- AQSM isn't distinguishing up/down bloat. When it detects bloat it has
to limit both directions in equal proportion.
=> if there is upload contention (and your user is uploading), you may
hurt apps sensitive to download bandwidth (streaming video), when you
don't need to.
What would the solutions look like?
i) If contention in one direction was negligible, you could limit the
other direction only. Consumer connections are highly asymmetric, and
AQSM is only measuring the first IP hop. So it's more feasible than
100% in both directions. And this isn't about core networks (with
larger statistical universes... whether that helps or not).
I'm sure you're right and they're not asymmetric _enough_.
ii) Sebastian points out if you implement AQSM in the modem (as the
paper claims :p), you may as well BQL the modem drivers and run AQM.
*But that doesn't work on ingress* - ingress requires tbf/htb with a set
rate - but the achievable rate is lower in peak hours. So run AQSM on
ingress only! Point being that download bloat could be improved without
changing the other end (CMTS).
The question is not "can the theoretical max of all downstream devices
exceed the upstream bandwidth" because that answer is going to be
"yes" for every network built, LAN or WAN, but rather "does the demand
in practice of the combined downstream devices exceed the upstream
bandwidth for long enough to be a problem"
it's not even a matter of what percentage are they oversubscribed.
someone with 100 1.5Mb DSL lines downstream and a 50Mb upstream (30%
of theoretical requirements) is probably a lot worse than someone with
100 1G lines downstream and a 10G upstream (10% of theoretical
requirements) because it's far less likely that the users of the 1G
lines are actually going to saturate them (let alone simultaniously
for a noticable timeframe), while it's very likely that the users of
the 1.5M DSL lines are going to saturate their lines for extended
timeframes.
The problem shows up when either usage changes rapidly, or the network
operator is not keeping up with required upgrades as gradual usage
changes happen (including when they are prevented from upgrading
because a peer won't cooperate)
As for the "100% provisioning" ideal, think through the theoretical
aggregate and realize that before you get past very many layers, you
get to a bandwidh requirement that it's not technically possible to
provide.
David Lang
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