For my master’s thesis, I looked at how to get better throughput over 5G mmWave, which has really unpredictable bandwidth. Just using a big BFIFO buffer (sized to the BDP) gave us twice the throughput of FQ-CoDel, but at the cost of high jitter and bad latency for interactive traffic. To fix that, I wrote a non-transparent Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) as a Linux kernel module in C. It mixes big buffers with FQ-CoDel and manages to get both high, stable throughput and low latency impact.
