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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 bql-40 build available
The bql-40 release incorporates Linux kernel 3.3-rc3, bind 9.9rc2, defaults to installing the snmpd, fprobe, and avahi packages and has a somewhat improved AQM.
Added by Rich Brown 8 days ago

Cerowrt: CeroWrt bql-31 build available
Added by Rich Brown 8 days ago

Cerowrt: Ocean City (r6) Release is Complete
We have declared victory with the Ocean City Release. It is stable, but has been surpassed by the "bql smoketest" versions
Added by Rich Brown 8 days ago

Bloat: Bufferbloat demo videos
Bufferbloat demo videos are available.
Added by Jim Gettys 21 days ago

Bloat: CACM Bufferbloat paper and case study is out. (14 comments)
CACM Bufferbloat paper is out. It's the same as the ACM Queue version, but killing trees...
Added by Jim Gettys 29 days ago

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Latest projects

  • Cerowrt (05/27/2011 04:31 pm)

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

  • ISCWRT (05/02/2011 06:39 am)

    Bringing the power of ISC's Bind9 and DNSSEC to the home routers of the world, unbreaking the Edge, and restoring end-to-end connectivity to the Internet with IPv6.

  • Network Dashboard (04/22/2011 11:45 am)

    The network dashboard is a front-end for BISMark. The front-end will show longitudinal performance statistics about ISP performance (e.g., upload and download throughput, latency). We are also working with Georgia Tech's Project Kermit to develop a real-time interface to help users visualize their network activity. ...

  • Überwrt (03/18/2011 07:36 am)

    Get patches and concepts from the bufferbloat work into openwrt. See the Wiki for more details.

  • Project BISMark (03/10/2011 03:01 pm)

    BISMark is the Broadband Internet Service BenchMARK. It is a project led by Georgia Tech and the University of Napoli Federico II to develop an OpenWRT-based platform for performing measurements of ISP performance. The BISMark project is deploying programmable gateways in home networks to perform a combination of passive and active network measurements. ...