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Friday, August 31 • 2:10pm - 2:55pm
Bufferbloat: 'Dark' Buffers in the Internet - Jim Gettys, Bell Labs

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VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of
wireless thoughput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP implementations, and benchmarking Internet performance solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets have
conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers; each of which may introduce latency when filled. Full solutions require careful queue management everywhere in our network systems. Recent publication of Kathie Nichol's and Van Jacobson's CoDel algorithm and their upcoming release as part of Linux 3.5 hold out hope that bufferbloat will be defeated. I will cover the current state of bufferbloat related work and how you can have a network experience that is second to none.


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Jim Gettys, Bell Labs

Jim Gettys is a MTS at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, working on bufferbloat. He was the V.P. of Software at the One Laptop per Child project. He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT. He worked at W3C and was the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the IETF... Read More →


Friday August 31, 2012 2:10pm - 2:55pm PDT
Harbor Island 3