Experimenting with buffer sizes in routers
Neda Beheshti, Jad Naous, Yashar Ganjali, Nick McKeown · 2007
Recent theoretical results in buffer sizing research suggest that core Internet routers can achieve high link utilization, if they are capable of storing only a handful of packets. The underlying assumption is that the traffic is non-bursty, and that the system is operated below 85-90% utilization.