rfc-7928

Characterization Guidelines for Active Queue Management (AQM)

N. Kuhn (Editor), P. Natarajan (Editor), N. Khademi (Editor), D. Ros

date2016-07 streamIETF areatsv wgaqm statusINFORMATIONAL pages37 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7928 doi10.17487/RFC7928

Unmanaged large buffers in today's networks have given rise to a slew of performance issues. These performance issues can be addressed by some form of Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanism, optionally in combination with a packet-scheduling scheme such as fair queuing. This document describes various criteria for performing characterizations of AQM schemes that can be used in lab testing during development, prior to deployment.