Correct and update Prop324 based on things learned in prototyping
While testing congestion control over onion services, I noticed some omissions from the proposal that were present in the background material and literature, as well as some new heuristics I discovered from testing the prototype:
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The congestion window only should be updated with a congestion signal once per window -
If the local orconn is blocked, that should be an immediate congestion signal. Also doc that we may have too large a queue there -
If the edge connections do not have data to send, estimates of BDP should not be updated -
Westwood may have a runaway condition where max RTT continues to grow. We may want to reduce the max RTT measurement upon congestion -
I made a congestion control algorithm that directly uses the current BDP estimate as its current congestion window, and this works. We should spec it and evaluate it in Shadow. -
Update the consensus parameter list and tuning experiments section -
BDP estimation algs
Edited by Mike Perry