Re: CARD: handling of sequence numbers

Eunsoo Shim wrote:

>>The proposed values for retransmission timers were as follows:
>>
>>MN_AR_CARD_TIMEOUT: keep 1 sec.
>>MN_AR_CARD_RETRIES: keep 5
>>AR_AR_CARD_TIMEOUT: 300 ms
>>AR_AR_CARD_RETRIES: 2
>>
>>We also need to take the max. allowed MN-AR request rate into account,
>>which is
>>in the recent draft set to 1/sec. Vijay proposed 2/sec, which would
>>require to
>>adjust the values for retransmission above appropriately.
> 
> 
> Maybe my comment about it is quite late. Anyway I wonder again why it should
> be 2 seconds instead of 1 second. Could Vijay explain a little bit? Even
> though I have no base, 2 secounds sounds somewhat long.

2/sec in Marco's text refers to 2 requests per second, which
means a mobile node could send CARD requests every 500 ms,
but still be assured that the current AR wont drop it.

currently the MN shouldnt send more than 1 request per second.

Vijay