Reading Review for Class 5
This class’s readings are:
- Jain89
(Sections 2.2 - 2.5 and 4 optional)
- BBR
Your review should include both a summary of these papers, which
discusses
- the problem the paper addresses
- the paper’s solution
- the evidence the paper provides that the solution was
correct. Remember to keep in mind the historical context the
papers discuss.
Your review should also discuss, after the summary:
- whether the problem the paper solved is an important
one
- whether the solution was a good one
- whether the paper was fun or enjoyable to read.
- what questions you have about the paper, or which parts of the paper
(if any) you found hard to understand.
You should answer the above questions in about one sentence each. The
remainder of your review (about the below questions) should be about a
page (~500 words) long.
Finally, for this week’s papers, please reflect on the following
questions:
- What assumptions do Chiu and Jain make in their analysis of AIMD
congestion control algorithms? Were these valid assumptions to make in
1989, and do these assumptions still hold today? For example, what would
the interaction between a Private WAN network like B4 or SWAN and
congestion control be?
- Ware et al. state that:
A natural concern when deploying a new CCA on the Internet is how the
new CCA will interact with other deployed algorithms.
- Given Ware et al.’s analysis, what lesson should we learn from BBR’s
deployment? Either: (a) interactions between CCAs shouldn’t be a concern
for deployment, (b) it should be a concern, and BBR’s deployment was
wrong, or (c) it should be a concern, but not for BBR. Which of these
options (or, if you disagree with all of them, describe your view) is
correct? Explain why.