Fw: [e2e] ResiliencyToward Packet Misordering

[Poh Tze Ven]

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From: "Poh Tze Ven" <tvpoh at essex.ac.uk>
To: "Craig Partridge" <craig at aland.bbn.com>
Cc: "Cottrell, Les" <cottrell at SLAC.Stanford.EDU>; <mallman at grc.nasa.gov>;
<vern at icir.org>; <saq66 at umkc.edu>; "Ming Zhang" <mzhang at CS.Princeton.EDU>;
"Lloyd Wood" <L.Wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>; <end2end-interest at postel.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [e2e] ResiliencyToward Packet Misordering


> Hi,
>
> Thank you all for the answers.
>
> > >better utilisation of network resource, I believe packet misordering is not
> > >a pathological behaviour anymore ...
> >
> > Have you tested your belief?  I'd be interested in seeing someone repeat
> > the study.
>
> My current project involves massive network parallelism (that is perceived not
> to be easily avoided at the moment) in an isolated domain with 150 odd
routers.
> My concern is on the effect of packet misordering towards TCP connections as
> well as realtime and interactive network applications. I will provide you a
> summarized report as soon as I got one..
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
> -Tze Ven.
>
>