RED behavior with different packet sizes
<|reference_start|>RED behavior with different packet sizes: We consider the adaptation of random early detection (RED) as a buffer management algorithm for TCP traffic in Internet gateways where different maximum transfer units (MTUs) are used. We studied the two RED variants described in [4] and point out a weakness in both. The first variant where drop probability is independent from the packet size discriminates connections with smaller MTUs. The second variant results in a very high packet loss ratio (PLR), and as a consequence low goodput, for connections with higher MTUs. We show that fairness in terms of loss and goodput can be supplied through an appropriate setting of the RED algorithm.<|reference_end|>
@article{de cnodder2000red,
    title={RED behavior with different packet sizes},
    author={Stefaan De Cnodder, Omar Elloumi, Kenny Pauwels},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0001007},
    year={2000},
    doi={10.1109/ISCC.2000.860741},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0001007},
    primaryClass={cs.NI}
}