[ndnSIM] How packet loss is recovered?

Mudasir Qazi mudasirqazi00 at gmail.com
Mon May 21 10:38:03 PDT 2018


So the consumer keeps a list of unsatisfied interests? and next time it is
flooding an interest it will first look into this list, if any interest is
pending then it will be flooded first?

On Mon, 21 May 2018 at 22:35, Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis <
mastorakis at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mudasir,
>
> the default mechanism for recovering lost packets has been implemented on
> the consumer-end, and is based on RTT estimations. The consumer estimates
> the RTT to the producer, if a data packet is not received within this
> amount of time, then the consumer will retransmit.
>
> There is another mechanism that can is performed on layer 2 by NFD, which
> is a hop-by-hop best effort loss recovery scheme and has to be separately
> enabled in the simulations.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Spyridon (Spyros) Mastorakis
> Personal Website: http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/
> Internet Research Laboratory
> Computer Science Department
> UCLA
>
>
>
>
> On May 21, 2018, at 10:14 AM, Mudasir Qazi <mudasirqazi00 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a general question about the recovery of a lost packet in ndnSIM
> 2.3. Let's say, we have a consumer (ndn-consumer.cpp) which has requested
> packets ( '/prefix/%FE%00', '/prefix/%FE%01' and '/prefix/%FE%02' ) in a
> sequence. The producer (ndn-producer.cpp) replied with the data packets.
> Let's say some how, data reply of '/prefix/%FE%01' is lost and never
> received at consumer. How the consumer will get those lost data packets?
> Would it send request for next packet i.e., '/prefix/%FE%03' or it will
> send request of '/prefix/%FE%01' again? What phenomenon is used in ndnSIM
> 2.3.
>
> (please answer with the code file name and methods which are called to
> recover a lost packet)
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mudasir Qazi
>
>
>

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Regards,
Mudasir Qazi
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