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The Bufferbloat projects are providing a webspace for addressing chaotic and laggy network performance by:

  • Gathering together experts to tackle networking queue management and system problem(s), particularly those that effect wireless networks, home gateways, and edge routers
  • Spreading the word to correct basic assumptions regarding goodput and good buffering on the laptop, home gateway, core routers and servers.
  • Producing tools to demonstrate and diagnose the problem
  • Experiments in advanced congestion management
  • Producing patches to popular operating systems at the device driver, queuing, and TCP/ip layers to fix the problems.

There are several mailing lists, git repositories, and people here that are attempting to address the Bufferbloat issues at various levels.

Latest news

Cerowrt: Cerowrt 3.7.5-2 Is the new Stable
After the most extensive testing cerowrt has ever had, we're calling the 3.7.5-2 release - stable!!! - and all users should upgrade!
Added by Dave Täht 3 months ago

codel: Best Practices for benchmarking Codel and fq_codel
There are landmines for the unwary here; learn how to avoid them.
Added by Jim Gettys 6 months ago

Bloat: It's (still) the latency, stupid*
The Internet Society has issued another in its series on Bandwidth Management, in its Technology Roundtable Series.
Added by Jim Gettys 7 months ago

Cerowrt: Paypal for cerowrt subscriptions and donations
Accepting donations again for cerowrt (I hope)
Added by Dave Täht 9 months ago

Cerowrt: Cerowrt 3.3.8-10 - fq_codel + wifi latency reductions
After testing in a real world deployment, cerowrt 3.3.8-10 is looking pretty good.
Added by Dave Täht 11 months ago

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Latest projects

  • codel (05/06/2012 12:45 pm)

    CoDel (pronounced "coddle", and standing for "Controlled Delay") is a new no-knobs Active Queue Management algorithm designed by Kathleen Nichols of Pollere and Van Jacobson . It holds great promise for addressing at least some of the bufferbloat problem in many forms of network gear, from routers to dslams to servers to wireless....

  • Cerowrt (05/27/2011 04:31 pm)

    CeroWrt is a project built on the OpenWrt firmware to resolve the endemic problems of bufferbloat in home networking today, and to push forward the state of the art of edge networks and routers. Projects include proper IPv6 support, tighter integration with DNSSEC, and most importantly, reducing bufferbloat in both the wired and wireless components of the stack....

  • Bloat (01/23/2011 07:05 pm)
    A place for people to work together on the buffer bloat problem, as we pull together both the scope of the problem and how to mitigate and solve bufferbloat.