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

[Panos GEVROS]

Saverio Mascolo writes:
 |I have no reasons to believe that results reported in the paper below are
 |not correct.
 |Robust tuning of RED parameter is of course a great issue.
 |Regarding Random Early Discard my question is: since the goal is to produce
 |an early congestion indication through early dropping, why should we relate
 |dropping to average queue instead of instantaneous queue?

because we want occasional bursts to be able to pass through unharmed- this is 
important given the nature of data traffic- and in any case sporadic bursts 
and congestion are different things,
 
cheers
Panos

 |Average introduces delay and this is against the goal of having early
 |congestion indication.