CS 791: Quiz
Prof. John Byers
This quiz will not contribute at all to your overall grade -- I am just
using it to assess how much students are getting out of reading the papers
so that I can calibrate my lectures accordingly.
In one or two sentences, what is the main premise of the RED paper?
Cite two reasons for why the authors chose to drop packets, rather than
mark them, as the default behavior in their simulations.
Specify two undesirable characteristics of drop-tail gateways mentioned
in the paper.
What was the desired distribution of interarrival times between marked
packets at a RED gateway?