Interesting approach to Internet traffic routing..

[Tick Tock Man]

http://www.gizmag.com/random-linear-network-coding/33038/

This is pretty cool, and addresses some of the more serious shortcomings of the TCP/IP suite - not the least of which is the delays inherent to TCP and the sliding window aspect of network communication - by using the new encoding methodology, it eliminates the need for the sliding window altogether by eliminating the need for order specific delivery of packets. This means that packet retransmission will be kept to a minimum, reducing net congestion and delivery time.....just brilliant!

I doubt this will do much directly to improve UDP streams however, given that this connectionless protocol doesn't resend lost packets anyway - however the reduction in net traffic required for TCP should provide at least some boost and reduction in lost streaming packets...

Now if this were implemented at the same time as the anticipated shift from IPv4 to IPv6 - the differences in net traffic speed would be incredible.....

 

[up-n-atom]

Never gonna happen and I'm surprised they never brought attention to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat which is what they're misunderstanding with a fix in a non-inherit manner. It's being addressed with https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt and more realistic for the now and the future. The EFF have started an open internet campaign at https://openwireless.org/ just days ago and are using CeroWRT. Net neutrality is more important anyway.

 

[Tick Tock Man]

We are talking about two entirely different things here - the oversized buffers for TCP traffic are there primarily because of the order-dependent nature of TCP, as is the throttling mechanism - the need for both would be dramatically reduced by removing that dependency.