A Fresh Look at ECN Traversal in the Wild
arXiv (Cornell University)(2022)
摘要
The Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) field has taken on new importance due to Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable throughput (L4S) technology designed for extremely latency-sensitive applications (such as cloud games and cloud-rendered VR/AR). ECN and L4S need to be supported by the client and server but also all devices in the network path. We have identified that "ECN bleaching", where an intermediate network device clears or "bleaches" the ECN flags, occurs and quantified how often that happens, why it happens and identified where in the network it happens. In this research, we conduct a comprehensive measurement study on end-to-end traversal of the ECN field using probes deployed on the Internet across different varied clients and servers. Using these probes, we identify and locate instances of ECN bleaching on various network paths on the Internet. In our six months of measurements, conducted in late 2021 and early 2022, we found the prevalence varied considerably from network to network. One cloud provider and two cellular providers bleach the ECN field as a matter of policy. Of the rest, we found 1,112 out of 129,252 routers, 4.17% of paths we measured showed ECN bleaching.
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ecn traversal
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