Periodic rate drop with CWND control enabled. #45
Description
Hello, I am having an issue with periodic excessive rate drop when trying to use scream with ScreamTx::openWindow = false
For verification, I have set up both the sender and receiver on two machines in a local subnet, to eliminate network bandwidth variations. I have several cameras with separate streams using the prioritization functionality.
Stable with ScreamTx::openWindow = true
The transmission is very stable when running with ScreamTx::openWindow = true
Below is the output of a little statistic that I am collecting on ScreamTx::Stream::updateTargetBitrate() to visualise the incidence of different updating scenarios. I print it every 25k calls of said function.
At the bottom (of this image) is a "histogram" of ScreamTx::getTotalTargetBitrate(). You can see that in this setup, in the span of 15M calls, the bitrate remains near the maximum values limited by maximum bitrates. This was measured for about 30+ minutes.
Dipping with ScreamTx::openWindow = false
When enabling CWND control, the target bitrate stays at the same stable maximum level most of the time, but very regularly dips. Sometimes the dip reaches a medium low level and recovers after a short moment, sometimes it dips all the way to minimum bitrates and struggles to recover for tens of seconds. After half an hour or so, it gets stuck in clearing the RtpQueue and never recovers at all.
Here is the same statistic with CWND control. It can be seen that the bitrate has been all over the place, and stayed near minimum 9% of the time.
It can also be seen that many clearings of RtpQueue have been performed due to excessive delay (not Loss or Ecn events), which, I guess is due to cwnd dropping to the minimum (5000) and packets not getting sent thereby. Under normal operation, i observed the cwnd value to be around 130'000.
Here is an example of the bitrates dropping a little bit for a short while and then going all the way down for a longer time.
Question
Are there any obvious things I should try changing or any other values I should monitor to get a clue?
These coefficients are currently set to:
kLossBeta = 0.8
kEcnCeBeta = 0.9