I have been discussing the packet size s for CCID3 (TFRC) with my supervisor and also been discussing related issues with Gerrit and I am wondering why we have this? CCID3 is datagram based and the whole point of s is to keep packets at a certain rate per second. In effect provided s is calculated correctly it cancels out of the equation but it becomes more complicated in the code! If it is miscalculated (accidentally or deliberately) it becomes worse because you are either starved or send too much. Why not just calculate a packet rate per second? Or am I missing something obvious? I'm looking to apply this in other areas of implementation as well - for example packet buffering in TCP is traditional done with a limit of bytes where DCCP would make more sense to limit this on number of packets - and the code would be much easier too. Calculating on packets per second also has the effect that it is visible to application designers potentially who will put more data in a datagram to increase throughput. Comments? Regards, Ian -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand
