A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5236 Title: Improved Packet Reordering Metrics Author: A. Jayasumana, N. Piratla, T. Banka, A. Bare, R. Whitner Status: Informational Date: June 2008 Mailbox: Anura.Jayasumana@colostate.edu, Nischal.Piratla@telekom.de, Tarun.Banka@colostate.edu, abhijit_bare@agilent.com, rick_whitner@agilent.com Pages: 26 Characters: 57805 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-jayasumana-reorder-density-08.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5236.txt This document presents two improved metrics for packet reordering, namely, Reorder Density (RD) and Reorder Buffer-occupancy Density (RBD). A threshold is used to clearly define when a packet is considered lost, to bound computational complexity at O(N), and to keep the memory requirement for evaluation independent of N, where N is the length of the packet sequence. RD is a comprehensive metric that captures the characteristics of reordering, while RBD evaluates the sequences from the point of view of recovery from reordering. These metrics are simple to compute yet comprehensive in their characterization of packet reordering. The measures are robust and orthogonal to packet loss and duplication. This memo provides information for the Internet community. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team USC/Information Sciences Institute _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce