[ENet-discuss] Congestion Avoidance and Control

Lee Salzman lsalzman1 at cox.net
Thu Mar 5 17:47:33 PST 2009


It uses pings or reliable packets to measure the mean round trip time 
for the connection.
Any excessive deviation from this causes a throttle to oscillate up or 
down, which regulates
how often ENet will drop unreliable packets to reduce bandwidth usage.

Lee

Aaron Boxer wrote:
> Thanks.  Can you elaborate on what algorithm is used?
>
> I am interested in using ENet in a low bandwidth, high packet loss 
> environment.
>
>
>
> Lee Salzman wrote:
>> Yes, mainly for unreliable data.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> Aaron Boxer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Does ENET support any congestion avoidance and control algorithms?
>>>
>>> c.f     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_avoidance_algorithm
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>



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