[Babel-users] Some idea on cost calculation based on hop count, loss and RTT

[StarBrilliant]

> This is a very interesting idea.  Do you have plans to develop a set of
> test and benchmark criteria to objectively assess the effectiveness of
> different cost functions?

Yes! My cost function is purely theoretical, based on Mathis's formula.
The purpose is to maximize TCP throughput.

I fully agree that a set of test and benchmark is required.
However I can only come up with a performance benchmark in a simulated
packet-lossy environment, which was actually done by other people before.
Do you have any other suggestions on the benchmark?


> As Star said, he is using tunnels over home-broadband and datacenter
> UDP.  The high loss of packets could come from congestion or
> ISP/state-level firewalls sabotaging connectivity.

Yeah, thanks for your explanation.
This is true, here in you know... China.