PRED: Performance-oriented Random Early Detection for Consistently Stable Performance...

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PRED implements on- switch flow counting and two loosely coupled subsystems, Flow Concurrent Stabilizer (FCS) and Queue Length Adjuster (QLA), using MIMD to scale RED slope with active-flow concurrency and A/B-style trials plus a utility function to nudge RED safely for traffic mix. Prototype runs on Tofino1/2 hardware with DCTCP hosts; testbed and large-scale sims show 66% lower switch queue length and up to 80% lower median FCT versus static RED, and 34% tail FCT reduction versus a learning baseline.

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1. 0:00Context and motivation
2. 0:52Congestion control methods
3. 3:11RED parameter optimization
4. 5:14Traffic-aware insights
5. 8:48Design of PRED
6. 10:25PRED architecture
7. 12:37Implementation details
8. 13:19Evaluation and results
9. 14:25Conclusions

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