[AusNOG] Buffers (was Re: Switching Recommendations)

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

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> From: Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>
>To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net 
>Sent: Monday, 15 July 2013 9:29 AM
>Subject: [AusNOG] Buffers (was Re: Switching Recommendations)
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>On 07/15/2013 08:53 AM, Lincoln Dale wrote:
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>On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Greg M <gregm at servu.net.au> wrote:
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>If this is something well-covered in the literature, please feel
    free to point me in that direction.
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I fairly recently looked up this topic, and came across this paper, which goes into the history of some of the recommendations on sizing router buffers:


Sizing Router Buffers

http://yuba.stanford.edu/~nickm/papers/sigcomm2004.pdf


Nick et. al. have done a lot of research into this area it appears, with a number of papers on the topic:


http://yuba.stanford.edu/~nickm/papers.html


One of the things they were researching was sizing of buffers on core routers. They've found that they don't need to be anywhere near the depth that buffers at the edge of the network should be.


He's also one of the main people behind SDN.

Regards,
Mark.