On 30/08/2011, at 1:22 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:

The gotcha is we don't have a AQM algorithm known to work in
the face of the highly dynamic bandwidth variation that is wireless

It's worse than highly dynamic... the bandwidth may be completely undefined moment to moment, as it is dependent on both the wireless environment, which varies on timescales that can be about equal to a packet transmit time, and on the traffic mix.  There's about 30 ms of correlation time at best.

 This was/is
the great surprise to me as I had always thought of AQM as a property of
internet routers, not hosts.

There's no distinction in the forwarding plane, every router is a host, every host is a router.

Andrew