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Equation 4 · Part 3 · How AI Datacenter Interconnects Actually Work

Symbol K

m(Q)={1Q>K0Q≤Km(Q) = \begin{cases} 1 & Q > K \\ 0 & Q \le K \end{cases}
KK

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K is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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K is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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…the single congestion bit ordinary TCP effectively gets from a drop [ 14 ] . The practical mechanism is a threshold rule applied at each switch queue: writing Q for the queue’s occupancy sampled at a packet’s arrival and K for a fixed marking threshold, the switch’s marking decision m is m(Q)={1Q>K0Q≤Km(Q) = \begin{cases} 1 & Q > K \\ 0 & Q \le K \end{cases}. so the sender receives, over many packets, a running estimate of what fraction of its recent traffic found the queue already over threshold — a proportional read on the severity of congestion rather than a…

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