[e2e] [Fwd: RED-->ECN]

[Isidro Castineyra]

Michael B Greenwald <mbgreen at dsl.cis.upenn.edu> writes:

> If the max input rate is lower than the *constant* output rate, then I
> can't produce any queue size at all (because whenever a packet arrives, the
> previous packet was already drained from the queue), so it is
> uninteresting.  

This would be true if the time between packet arrivals was constant.
When the inter-arrival time is variable (or the size of the packets is
variable, or both), a queue will form even if the average input rate
is lower than the average output rate

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