Bufferbloat may be solved, but it´s not over yet
(World News Science)

Dave Taht speaking at linux.conf.au 2020. At the recent linux.conf.au 2020, Dave Taht recounted the story of bufferbloat, explaining how network congestion control works with a live demonstration, using human attendees as packets, shuffling them back and forth across the room. Dave demonstrated TCP and queuing by stepping his volunteers through a series of examples of windowed protocols and TCP Reno/Cubic, then throwing in delay-sensitive data like VoIP and gaming traffic to show how deep buffers affect this class of traffic. Dave reminisced about when he and Jim Geddys identified the problem of bufferbloat. `At the time I was living in Nicaragua and just assumed it was my tin cans and...