[Sis-SCPS-INTEREST] SCPS with jitter

[Frank Murray]

All,
I am currently testing 2 SCPS gateways in the configuration below:

PC1->SCPS GW1---->Satellite simulator--->SCPS Gw2----->PC2

I use nistnet as a sat sim with a round-trip time of 1s and a symmetric 
bandwidth of 512K. I'm using FTP to test performance and as it is a 
dedicated link I'm using pure rate control for BIF_CC. The results have 
been good and I get to wire-speed very quickly with this setup. I've 
injected errors and the performance is still very good.

Problems arise however when I simulate jitter on the sat sim. I've set 
the jitter to have a standard deviation of 100ms and on 2 in 3 ftp 
uploads I get wire speed as before but on the other I get average 
bandwidths of about 30 kbits/s. The speed never builds up so I'm 
guessing that we get stuck in slow start because an ack gets delayed at 
startup. Is this behaviour to be expected with pure rate control?

I switched to Vegas but got similar results. I read in one of the FAQs 
that jitter *can* be interpreted as congestion so played around with the 
alpha/betta/gamma parameters without things improving but there was an 
amount of trial and error about this. Any advice on how to tune these 
parameters would be great.

Regards,

-- 
Frank Murray
KlasRouter Project Manager
Klas Ltd

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