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feat(congestion): BBR3 delay bound from the forward delay's trend - #7544
The realtime uplink bake-off (epic) needs its smallest candidate: BBR3 that keeps its model, Startup, and probing, and only adds a brake when the receive-timestamp forward delay shows the bottleneck queue growing. It also needs a shared measurement on the cellular moq-shaper presets, which did not exist yet.
Approach
Detector (rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/delay.rs): an independent reimplementation of libwebrtc GoogCC's delay detector with its constants. It groups packets into 5ms send groups and merges arrival bursts, as grants bunch them. It accumulates and smooths each group's delay variation, fits a 20-group least-squares trend, and holds the scaled trend to an adaptive threshold. take_signal reports only fresh assertions of growth. The sticky "overusing" state lags the queue by the window, and an early version that acted on it cut the rate again after the queue had already drained, down to 34 KB/s on a 312 KB/s link.
Brake (bbr3::Config::delay_bound, off by default): a third bound on BBR.bw, bw_delay, beside max_bw and bw_shortterm. It works through bound_bw_for_model, so it caps both pacing and the window.
Growth in ProbeBW_UP: bw_delay drops to the round's delivery rate, and the probe goes down, as it does on loss.
Growth in DOWN, CRUISE, or REFILL: bw_delay drops to 0.85 × the delivery rate, which is GoogCC's backoff, so the queue drains.
It acts at most once per round trip. It never acts in Startup, Drain, or ProbeRTT, nor on a round that measured no rate, which would bound pacing at zero (found by Pullfrog; delay_bound_ignores_a_zero_rate covers it).
Startup and ProbeBW_UP raise bw_delay to whatever non-app-limited delivery they reach. Probing, native duplicates included, still finds capacity that comes back.
Two consequences of the brake, also handled: REFILL no longer resets it, and the ACK-aggregation estimate ignores it.
The reported bandwidth estimate (Metrics::bandwidth_estimate) is the lower of max_bw and bw_delay, so an encoder following it slows with the brake, and the bandwidth probe keeps probing while the brake holds the rate under its target (found by CodeRabbit; delay_bound_caps_the_bandwidth_estimate covers it).
Without receive timestamps it does nothing. A unit test checks that it then matches BBR3 exactly.
The detector reads each ACK's packets in arrival order, as GoogCC's DelayBasedBwe sorts each feedback by receive time. A packet reordered within an ACK is then skipped as sent before the group in progress. Fed in send order, its negative arrival delta was discarded while the rebound after it counted, so reordering added up to false queue growth (found in review; reordered_within_an_ack_is_not_growth covers it).
Harness (rs/moq-quic/src/tests/realtime.rs): sim replicas of cellular-step, cellular-bursty, and cellular-deep. A bulk upload runs per candidate, with 8 seeds per preset, alone and beside one CUBIC upload. The table reports:
bottleneck queue p50, p95, and p99
p99 before the drop (ProbeBW_UP's transient queues)
utilization
peak queue during the drop, reaction time, and drain time
datagrams the uplink queue dropped
share beside CUBIC
Reaction time runs until pacing first falls to the dropped rate. Drain time runs until the queue falls under a quarter of its peak. The sim's Link gained scheduler grants, and Bottleneck gained a time-bounded queue and a per-packet trace. Both now live in rs/moq-quic/src/sim.rs, where main moved them (moq-dev/moq#7377). The shared comparison adds the other candidates to it as a Candidate each (GCC, moq-dev/moq#7546, landed without one). just rs quic-sim prints it nightly.
Probing under the brake: probe.rs scenarios pick the media's controller, Congestion::DelayBound among them. The gate test rises_to_target_under_delay_bound passes, and so does the nightly steps_delay_bound (stopped-rung recovery on 8 seeds). Both run within the existing budgets.
Results
Sim, 8 seeds, means, on 0d2f1de147, after merging main. Main's BBR3 retune (moq-dev/moq#7606) and window floor (moq-dev/moq#7650) moved both controllers' rows. The previous table, on 5aeeac55, is in this PR's edit history. The uplink drops at 10s and comes back at 20s; queue figures are over 2–30s. "never N" counts the seeds whose run never got there; the mean is over the rest.
preset
controller
queue p50
p95
p99
p99 before the drop
utilization
after the drop
peak
reaction
drained
dropped
share beside CUBIC
cellular-step
BBR3
46ms
360ms
430ms
79ms
94%
98%
468ms
9756ms, never 5
9937ms, never 6
0
14%
cellular-step
BBR3 delay bound
11ms
55ms
94ms
59ms
89%
80%
280ms
286ms
1260ms
0
11%
cellular-bursty
BBR3
59ms
154ms
190ms
87ms
96%
96%
214ms
4683ms
4866ms
0
20%
cellular-bursty
BBR3 delay bound
17ms
79ms
99ms
85ms
90%
93%
143ms
436ms
2288ms
0
10%
cellular-deep
BBR3
80ms
495ms
571ms
119ms
93%
98%
593ms
never
5411ms, never 7
0
9%
cellular-deep
BBR3 delay bound
16ms
78ms
161ms
80ms
89%
80%
369ms
442ms
742ms
0
7%
The brake answers a capacity drop in 0.29–0.44s, where BBR3 waits 4.7s for its estimate to age, or never moves within the 10s drop. Queue p95 falls 49–85%, at a 4–6 point cost in utilization.
The case against it, as the Plan asked: ProbeBW_UP's transient queues are only partly cut. p99 before the drop is 59 vs 79ms, 85 vs 87ms, and 80 vs 119ms. At these small BDPs, BBR3's Reno-coexistence timer starts an UP every few hundred ms, and the 20-group trend window detects growth only after the UP has built it.
After the drop, utilization is 80% on cellular-step and cellular-deep, where BBR3 gets 98%. Before this merge it was 92% and 95%, so main's BBR3 changes made the brake hold the rate further under the dropped capacity. This PR doesn't explain it.
The standing queue on cellular-deep that the brake used to leave in place (p50 103 vs 114ms on 5aeeac55) is gone after the merge: p50 16 vs 80ms. Every seed on every preset now drains its queue, cellular-bursty in 2.3s on average.
Share beside CUBIC drops from 20% to 10% on cellular-bursty, and by 2–3 points elsewhere. BBR3 itself gets only 9–20% against CUBIC on these deep buffers.
Impact
Public API: adds bbr3::Config::delay_bound(bool) (named Bbr3Config before main's moq-dev/moq#7258). Off by default, so no behavior changes.
No wire or transport change. Receive timestamps are still requested separately (transport::Config::receive_timestamps).
moq_quic::sim (hidden, behind the sim feature) gains Bottleneck::timed, Bottleneck::trace, and Link::grant. They are test-harness additions with no effect unless set.
Decisions
Settled by the maintainer, ✅ 2026-11-01, and recorded in the epic's Plan:
Brake mechanism. The Plan says "only adds a queue-delay brake" but does not say where it acts.
✅ (a) A separate bw_delay bound that REFILL does not reset and that Startup and UP raise. This is what the PR implements.
(b) Reuse BBR's short-term model (bw_shortterm/inflight_shortterm), as loss does. Measured in the unit sim with a 4× drop: REFILL resets it to the stale max_bw within a round trip, and the queue settled at 145–164ms, the same as BBR3.
Real moq-shaper sockets. The Goal says "on the shared moq-shaper uplink presets".
✅ (a) Keep this candidate's report on the sim replicas. The epic's shared comparison runs every candidate over real moq-shaper sockets once, near-zero noise floor included. The epic's Plan now says so.
(b) Add a real-socket run to this PR, extending moq-tokio's receive_ts integration harness with a recording wrapper around BBR3.
Detector ownership.
✅ (a) Keep this small reimplementation inside bbr3/, so dropping the candidate deletes it with the option.
(b) Once the GCC candidate vendors goog_cc, reuse its trendline instead.
Choices made without asking
Startup is unchanged, as the Plan says (brake only in ProbeBW).
DELAY_BETA = 0.85, from GoogCC. A ProbeBW_UP stop sets the bound at 1.0 × the delivery rate, since that delivery rate is the capacity the probe found.
The unit and gate tests set their thresholds from measured values, as the existing CE test does. The unit test's median queue is 14ms vs 145ms, so the assertion is a 4× margin.
Merging main on 2026-11-02: main's GCC candidate (moq-dev/moq#7546) added a gcc flag to the probe Scenario, beside this PR's delay_bound flag. They became one Congestion enum (BBR3, the delay bound, or GCC), so no scenario can set both. GCC's rise test reuses this PR's opening() scenario. Main replaced subscribe_at with an INFO-default subscribe(), which the realtime table now uses, as receive_ts's table does.
Merging main earlier: main moved the test Link and Bottleneck into rs/moq-quic/src/sim.rs (moq-dev/moq#7377), so this PR's additions to them moved there too, unchanged apart from pub(super) becoming pub.
just rs check-test -p moq-congestion -p moq-quic: passed, 1086 tests run, 1086 passed, 20 skipped. Clippy, fmt, doc, and the workspace checks passed.
just rs test --release -p moq-quic --lib --run-ignored all -E 'test(/^tests::realtime::/) | test(/^tests::probe::(rises|steps_keyframes|steps_delay_bound|competing_cubic)/)': 8 passed, including main's rises_to_target_under_gcc. The Results table comes from this run.
quest check --base origin/main: ok (551 documents).
Not run: the full just ci, the Markdown lint, and macOS and Windows. CI covers them, and the change has no platform-specific code.
Review
mechanical fix by quest land watch: merged main at e9ffe82dfb0e5057261ff78fb172c3f9a64c74f5 with the quest merge driver (head 3a12e3c)
Reviewer: Codex (other vendor to the Claude author), model gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, via quest review --new --base origin/main, session 01a1a029.
Pullfrog, on 5aeeac55: a zero-rate round set bw_delay to 0 (thread). Fixed in b36d5dcbd3; delay_bound_ignores_a_zero_rate covers it.
CodeRabbit, on b36d5dcbd3: Controller::metrics reported max_bw while bw_delay bounded BBR.bw (thread). Fixed in 597b60ed5a; delay_bound_caps_the_bandwidth_estimate covers it.
CodeRabbit nitpick, on b36d5dcbd3: keep OVERUSE_TIME and THRESHOLD_MAX_STEP typed as Duration, per the repository's typed-units rule. Fixed in 0d2f1de147, converting with millis() where the trend math needs an f64, as ARRIVAL_OFFSET_THRESHOLD already did.
Pullfrog and the OpenAI review, on 597b60ed5a: no new findings.
Earlier rounds, on 4436f6e2 and 5aeeac55 (session 01a19924), are in this PR's edit history. Their one finding was fixed in 5aeeac55.
Follow-ups
The epic's shared comparison: run the three candidates over real moq-shaper sockets with the near-zero noise floor, as the epic's Plan now records.
If this candidate wins: cut ProbeBW_UP's transient queue, for example by detecting growth faster at small BDPs, or capping the UP's inflight at the last brake's BDP. Also see why the brake now holds utilization after the drop at 80% on cellular-step and cellular-deep. It was 92–95% before main's BBR3 retune (moq-dev/moq#7606).
An application-limited sender whose growth signal comes from its own bursts sets bw_delay from an app-limited delivery rate. The bound recovers at the next ProbeBW_UP (the probe scenarios with keyframes show no extra late frames), but a cut floored at the media rate may be worth measuring.
moq-dev/moq#7547 (SCReAMv2) copies this PR's tests/util.rs sim changes verbatim. Since main moved that code into sim.rs, whichever of the two lands second resolves the same conflict by keeping one copy in sim.rs. If it still adds a probe-scenario flag, it becomes a Congestion variant.
Bbr3Config::delay_bound reads the peer's receive timestamps through a
GoogCC-style trendline (burst grouping, smoothed accumulated delay,
adaptive threshold) and bounds BBR.bw at the delivery rate the queue's
growth measured: ProbeBW_UP stops there, growth outside a probe sets the
bound to 0.85 of it so the queue drains, and Startup and ProbeBW_UP raise
it to what they deliver. Off by default; without timestamps it is BBR3.
moq-quic's tests::realtime replays the cellular moq-shaper presets on the
sim and tabulates queueing delay, utilization, reaction to the drop, and
share beside CUBIC for each candidate; probe.rs checks native probing
still raises the estimate under the bound.
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BBR3 delay bound
feat(congestion): BBR3 delay bound from the forward delay's trend
Nov 1, 2026
…e trace
Takes #7544's Bottleneck::timed, Link::grant and Bottleneck::trace
verbatim in place of this branch's own grant and queue sampling, so the two
candidates' harness changes merge cleanly in either order.
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Coordination from the SCReAMv2 candidate (moq-dev/moq#7547): it takes this PR's rs/moq-quic/src/tests/util.rs changes (Bottleneck::timed, Bottleneck::trace, Link::grant) verbatim and matches the quic-sim recipe description, so the two branches merge cleanly in either order (a trial merge-tree shows no conflicts).
SCReAMv2 does not join tests::realtime yet, since that file is not on main. One note for when it does: SCReAMv2 expects media that follows its target rate. Under a bulk upload, its window (up to 3x the reference window) and its 1.5x pacing headroom let it overshoot, so it oscillates in a way it does not with an adaptive encoder. tests::scream in #7547 drives an encoder that follows the estimate, with 2s keyframes. The bake-off may want both workloads for every candidate.
Main moved the test Link and Bottleneck into moq-quic's sim module; the time-bounded queue, packet trace, and scheduler grants move there with them.
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The maintainer settled the three open decisions on 2026-11-01: the brake stays a separate bw_delay bound, its detector stays inside bbr3/, and the shared comparison runs every candidate over real moq-shaper sockets once.
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Fed in send order, a packet reordered within an ACK showed a negative arrival delta, which the detector discards, while the rebound after it counted as delay. Alternating 20ms and 50ms delays accumulated 30ms of false queue growth every two packets. GoogCC's DelayBasedBwe sorts each feedback by receive time, so a packet sent before the group in progress is skipped instead; the detector now does the same.
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Review comments at @rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs:
- Around line 1871-1882: Update bound_queue_growth so an application-limited
sample cannot reduce bw_delay using rs.delivery_rate, while preserving the
queue-growth response for sparse senders, including the ProbeBW_UP transition to
ProbeBW_DOWN. Use a non-application-limited rate basis for any reduction and
keep the existing response when the sample is not application-limited; align the
exclusion with the behavior in raise_bw_delay.
- Around line 1979-1982: Reorder the delay-signal handling so
`bound_queue_growth(ack.now)` runs first when `grew` is true, then call
`raise_bw_delay()` as before; preserve the existing behavior of calling
`raise_bw_delay()` for every delay signal.
Review comments at @rs/moq-quic/src/tests/realtime.rs:
- Around line 61-63: Update uniform to accept sigma as a Duration and calculate
the equivalent jitter without relying on bare millisecond integers. Update each
uniform call site in the Preset definitions to pass a Duration, preserving the
existing 3 ms and 5 ms sigma values.
Walkthrough
BBR3 gains an optional receive-timestamp delay detector and a separate bandwidth ceiling that responds to detected queue growth. The BBR3 simulator now supports receive timestamps and queue-delay measurements, with tests for controller behavior. QUIC tests add delay-bound controller configurations and realtime comparisons across cellular presets. The simulation command and comparison plan are updated, and the separate delay-bound proposal is removed.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 3a12e
The optional delay bound has two bounded braking weaknesses that can temporarily reduce throughput or weaken queue control. These warrant owner awareness and correction, but do not affect default BBR3 behavior. Reported bandwidth estimates now follow the delay ceiling.
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No actionable bugs found in the delay detector, BBR3 bound integration, and simulation/probing changes. The locally reported reordering finding is addressed by arrival-order processing and its focused regression test; it is not a new finding here.
Direction: an opt-in bound within BBR3 keeps the candidate smaller than a controller fork. Keeping it separate from the REFILL-reset short-term bound is consistent with the intended persistent brake. The public option and separately requested receive timestamps are documented; there is no wire change. The documented standing-queue, probing-transient, and CUBIC-share tradeoffs still matter when choosing the eventual default, rather than being evidence that this candidate solves every realtime workload.
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ℹ️ No critical issues — one narrow robustness suggestion inline.
Reviewed changes
Delay detector (rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/delay.rs, new): a faithful port of libwebrtc GoogCC's InterArrivalDelta + TrendlineEstimator. Grouping, burst merge, clock-jump/reorder resets, smoothing, the 20-group least-squares trend, the adaptive threshold, and the overuse-time/counter/prev-trend gate all match the upstream constants and structure. take_signal cleanly separates fresh growth assertions from the sticky usage state.
Brake (rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs): Bbr3Config::delay_bound (off by default) adds bw_delay as a third bound in bound_bw_for_model, lowered in bound_queue_growth and raised in raise_bw_delay, with update_ack_aggregation exempting the delay-bounded path so draining is not read as ACK aggregation. With the option off, delay is None and bw_delay is INFINITY, so there is no behavior change.
Sim harness (rs/moq-quic/src/sim.rs, tests/realtime.rs, tests/probe.rs): time-bounded bottleneck queues, scheduler grants, a per-packet queue trace, and the preset comparison table, all deterministic on the seeded sim. The merge-gate test uses fixed seeds, and delay_bound_without_timestamps_is_bbr3 pins the no-op path.
Queue growth read on a round that measured no rate set bw_delay to zero, pinning BBR.bw and the pacing rate there until a probe lifted it. Skip it, as update_max_bw skips a zero-rate sample.
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No new actionable bugs found. The independent zero-rate finding is addressed at rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs:1825–1827: an unmeasured round leaves both the bandwidth bound and round marker unchanged. The added focused test covers that case. This is a robustness fix for the synthetic zero-interval scenario, not evidence of a demonstrated live QUIC failure.
Direction remains sound: the small guard avoids inventing a minimum pacing rate, and the merge consistently adapts the option and harness to main's bbr3::Config naming. No additional API or wire change beyond those already reviewed.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
The delta since the prior pullfrog review at 5aeeac5 is the fix for the one reported finding plus main's controller rename.
Zero-rate guard (rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs:1826): bound_queue_growth now returns before bounding anything when max(bw_latest, rs.delivery_rate) <= 0.0, matching update_max_bw's skip. It leaves bw_delay and delay_round_delivered untouched, so a later growth signal with a real rate still acts that round. Confirmed the guard sits after the per-round check and before the state match.
Regression test (delay_bound_ignores_a_zero_rate, mod.rs:8337): reaches a zero sample via an ACK at the send instant; asserts bw_delay stays INFINITY and delay_round_delivered stays 0. Fails under the old behavior (left: 0.0, right: inf).
Rename (Bbr3Config → bbr3::Config / Config): mechanical adoption of main's #7258 across config/transport/mod.rs:314, probe.rs:270, realtime.rs:123, and the two READMEs. All call sites resolve consistently; the remaining Bbr3Config references are noq_proto (separate crate) and the README's migration note.
Doc (mod.rs:1815): the non-obvious guard rationale is captured on bound_queue_growth.
The prior finding's thread is resolved by the author.
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Keep time constants typed as Duration.
OVERUSE_TIME and THRESHOLD_MAX_STEP are times stored as bare f64 milliseconds. Declare them as Duration. Convert them with millis(...) only where the trendline math needs an f64. The gains (K_UP, K_DOWN, THRESHOLD_*, MAX_ADAPT_OFFSET) are unitless or scaled-trend values, so they can stay f64.
Then use millis(OVERUSE_TIME) in detect and millis(THRESHOLD_MAX_STEP) in update_threshold.
As per coding guidelines: "Typed units only: std::time::Duration, moq_net::Timestamp, never f64 seconds or bare u64 millis."
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With the delay bound engaged, `Controller::metrics` still reported
`max_bw`, so bandwidth followers such as an encoder kept the old rate
while BBR3 paced under `bw_delay`, and the bandwidth probe judged the
target reached. Report the lower of the two; `bw_delay` is infinite
unless the delay bound is on, so stock BBR3 is unchanged.
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No new actionable bugs found. The independent bandwidth-estimate finding is fixed at rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs:2047–2054: metrics now expose min(max_bw, bw_delay), preserving stock BBR3 behavior when the delay bound is infinite. The focused test covers lower, higher, and unset bounds. The previously addressed zero-rate guard remains intact.
Direction: exposing the same persistent brake to bandwidth followers and the transport's probe-target check is simpler and more consistent than compensating in each consumer. No new API shape or wire change.
Verification limits: static source review, including the probe consumer; I did not run tests, simulations, or encoder workloads.
Main's GCC candidate (#7546) added a gcc flag to the probe scenarios beside
this branch's delay_bound flag; both become one Controller enum, and GCC's
rise reuses opening(). The epic no longer says the delay bound landed first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Main's subscribe() replaced subscribe_at, and moq-congestion's Controller trait
is in scope in the probe tests, so the merged scenario enum is Congestion. The
delay detector's two time constants are Durations, as the repository's typed
units rule asks (CodeRabbit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No new actionable issue found. Accounting for main's BBR3 retune and shared harness, the typed duration conversion preserves detector thresholds and the harness retains distinct controller choices. The newly measured 80% post-drop utilization remains a stated follow-up for the shared comparison.
Static GitHub review only; I did not run tests or simulations.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
The delta since the prior pullfrog review at 597b60e is a merge of main plus the branch's adaptation to it.
Merged origin/main through the GCC candidate (#7546): the probe Scenario's separate gcc and delay_bound flags collapsed into one Congestion enum (Bbr3, DelayBound, Gcc), GCC's rise test reuses opening(), and subscribe_at gave way to subscribe().
Renamed the probe scenario enum Controller → Congestion (field controller → congestion), since moq-congestion's Controller trait is in scope in the probe tests.
Typed the detector's two time constants as Duration (OVERUSE_TIME, THRESHOLD_MAX_STEP), converting with millis(...) only where the trend math needs f64 — the CodeRabbit nitpick. millis(OVERUSE_TIME) is 10.0 and millis(THRESHOLD_MAX_STEP) is 100.0, so the thresholds and behavior are unchanged.
Docs: the epic drops the now-landed GCC candidate and records tests::realtime as the shared harness; moq-congestion's README lists GCC and documents the delay bound.
Verified the merge resolution has a single match scenario.congestion with no stale gcc/delay_bound/controller fields, and that the post-merge bound_queue_growth, bound_bw_for_model, and raise_bw_delay are intact. The prior zero-rate finding's thread is resolved by the author, and the earlier Duration and bandwidth-estimate findings are fixed.
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The queue failed in moq-transcode tests::live_multi_rung at rs/moq-transcode/src/lib.rs:550 with Err(Cancel). This local broadcast/software encoder test and its source are unchanged by this PR; the new delay bound is disabled by default. No evidence ties the failure to the PR. Both cargo test and nextest passed all 1157 tests across moq-congestion, moq-quic, and moq-transcode, including live_multi_rung. Please follow up on the apparent timing flake. The PR branch remains at its pinned head; no code changes were made.
quest land watch: re-enqueued this pull request at 0d2f1de, at the back of the merge queue, unchanged, since the land fixer judged the failure flaky: cargo nextest run --locked --tests: moq-transcode tests::live_multi_rung.
quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at 0d2f1de because it conflicts with main (merge_conflict).
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quest land watch: armed auto-merge on this pull request at 3a12e3c, so it joins the back of the merge queue once its required checks pass, with main at e9ffe82 merged in by the quest merge driver.
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✅ No new issues found.
Reviewed changes
The delta since the prior pullfrog review at 0d2f1de is the quest-land merge of the tested base e9ffe82 into the branch.
Merged main (tested base): the PR's own behavioral code (bbr3/delay.rs, bbr3/mod.rs, tests/probe.rs, tests/realtime.rs, rs/justfile) is byte-identical to the previously approved 0d2f1de.
Adopted main's SCReAMv2 #7547 harness: the PR's own Bottleneck::timed/trace and Link::grant additions to rs/moq-quic/src/sim.rs are now in main, so they left this PR's diff.
Took main's tests/mod.rs waits refactor and kept mod realtime; beside main's mod scream;; took main's new quic-sim/codspeed lines in rs/justfile.
Quest docs (quest/m2/quic-realtime/README.md): dropped main's already-landed SCReAMv2 bullet and the landed BBR3 delay bound bullet, recorded the settled decisions, and deleted bbr-delay-bound.md; moq-congestion/README.md documents the delay bound.
Verified the merge is clean: no conflict markers in the touched files, exactly one mod realtime; and one mod scream; in tests/mod.rs, no dangling bbr-delay-bound references repo-wide, and every harness API realtime.rs uses still exists after main's refactor (Connection::congestion_state, Pair::next_wakeup, Bottleneck::timed/set_rate/trace, Link::grant). The prior zero-rate finding's thread is resolved by the author, and the earlier Duration-typing and bandwidth-estimate findings are fixed.
Add a delivered-goodput comparison to delay_bound_keeps_a_shorter_queue.
This test asserts only that the p95 queue with the delay bound is below the BBR3 queue. It does this for the STEP preset on seed 1. A controller that sends well below the uplink rate can also shorten its queue and still pass. The test does not check delivered goodput on this workload.
Add a utilization comparison against BBR3 for the same WARMUP..END range. Outcome::utilization already computes this measure and is used by compare. Set the threshold from the measured nightly comparison table, not from a fixed value.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-quic/src/tests/realtime.rs around lines 325 - 332:
Add a delivered-goodput comparison to delay_bound_keeps_a_shorter_queue
alongside its p95 queue assertion, using Outcome::utilization for both runs over
WARMUP..END and comparing the delay-bound result against BBR3. Set the required
threshold from the measured nightly comparison table rather than choosing a
fixed value.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
Do not lower bw_delay from an application-limited sample in bound_queue_growth.
On a queue-growth signal, bound_queue_growth sets bw_delay to max(bw_latest, rs.delivery_rate), or to DELAY_BETA times that rate in other ProbeBW phases. It does not check rs.is_app_limited. For a sparse sender, an application-limited round reports the sender's offered load, not the path's usable rate. The lowered bound then caps later sends until a ProbeBW_UP sample that is not application-limited raises it. If the sender's offered load rises during that time, its sends stay below the path's usable rate. raise_bw_delay already excludes application-limited samples, so the lowering path does not follow the same rule.
A correction must keep the queue-growth response for sparse senders. A plain early return on rs.is_app_limited would also remove that response.
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Review comment at @rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs around lines 1871 - 1882:
Update bound_queue_growth so an application-limited sample cannot reduce
bw_delay using rs.delivery_rate, while preserving the queue-growth response for
sparse senders, including the ProbeBW_UP transition to ProbeBW_DOWN. Use a
non-application-limited rate basis for any reduction and keep the existing
response when the sample is not application-limited; align the exclusion with
the behavior in raise_bw_delay.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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Run the ProbeBW_UP growth brake before raise_bw_delay.
On a growth ACK in ProbeBw(Up), raise_bw_delay sets bw_delay to the ACK's delivery rate when that rate exceeds the current bound. bound_queue_growth then applies bw_delay.min(...) to the same rate. The minimum keeps the raised value, so the bound rises instead of falling. The probe still stops, but the pacing ceiling stays higher than the brake intends.
Run the brake first. The brake moves the state to ProbeBw(Down), so the raise then does nothing on that ACK.
Suggested fix
if let Some(grew) = self.delay.as_mut().map(delay::Detector::take_signal) {
- self.raise_bw_delay();
if grew {
self.bound_queue_growth(ack.now);
}
+ self.raise_bw_delay();
}
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Review comment at @rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/mod.rs around lines 1979 - 1982:
Reorder the delay-signal handling so `bound_queue_growth(ack.now)` runs first
when `grew` is true, then call `raise_bw_delay()` as before; preserve the
existing behavior of calling `raise_bw_delay()` for every delay signal.
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Pass the jitter sigma as a Duration, not a bare u64 of milliseconds.
uniform takes sigma_ms: u64. The repository's typed-units rule forbids bare u64 milliseconds. Its three call sites pass literal integers, so a caller that passes microseconds or seconds would still compile.
🛠️ Suggested fix
-/// Uniform jitter with the variance of a gaussian's `sigma`: `sigma` times the root of 12-const fn uniform(sigma_ms: u64) -> Duration {- Duration::from_micros(sigma_ms * 3464)+/// Uniform jitter with the variance of a gaussian's `sigma`: `sigma` times the root of 12+const fn uniform(sigma: Duration) -> Duration {+ Duration::from_micros(sigma.as_micros() as u64 * 3464 / 1000)
}
@@
- jitter: uniform(3),+ jitter: uniform(Duration::from_millis(3)),
@@
- jitter: uniform(5),+ jitter: uniform(Duration::from_millis(5)),
@@
- jitter: uniform(5),+ jitter: uniform(Duration::from_millis(5)),
As per coding guidelines: "Typed units only: std::time::Duration, moq_net::Timestamp, never f64 seconds or bare u64 millis. serde_as converts at the edge."
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Review comment at @rs/moq-quic/src/tests/realtime.rs around lines 61 - 63:
Update uniform to accept sigma as a Duration and calculate the equivalent jitter
without relying on bare millisecond integers. Update each uniform call site in
the Preset definitions to pass a Duration, preserving the existing 3 ms and 5 ms
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quest land watch: the merge queue removed this pull request at 3a12e3c because its merge_group build failed (failed_checks).
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The queue failed in moq-c test::raw_track_subscription_options_and_update: the subscription update returned -27 (track not found), expected 0. The PR does not change this test or its C subscription code, and no evidence attributes this failure to the PR. The unchanged pinned head built successfully and passed all 1,275 library tests across moq-congestion, moq-quic, and moq-c, including the reported failing test. Requeueing unchanged; please follow up on the intermittent test failure. Local validation used LIBCLANG_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and BINDGEN_EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS to locate installed native dependencies.
quest land watch: re-enqueued this pull request at 3a12e3c, at the back of the merge queue, unchanged, since the land fixer judged the failure flaky: cargo nextest run --locked --tests: moq-c test::raw_track_subscription_options_and_update.
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Problem
The realtime uplink bake-off (epic) needs its smallest candidate: BBR3 that keeps its model, Startup, and probing, and only adds a brake when the receive-timestamp forward delay shows the bottleneck queue growing. It also needs a shared measurement on the cellular moq-shaper presets, which did not exist yet.
Approach
Detector (
rs/moq-congestion/src/bbr3/delay.rs): an independent reimplementation of libwebrtc GoogCC's delay detector with its constants. It groups packets into 5ms send groups and merges arrival bursts, as grants bunch them. It accumulates and smooths each group's delay variation, fits a 20-group least-squares trend, and holds the scaled trend to an adaptive threshold.take_signalreports only fresh assertions of growth. The sticky "overusing" state lags the queue by the window, and an early version that acted on it cut the rate again after the queue had already drained, down to 34 KB/s on a 312 KB/s link.Brake (
bbr3::Config::delay_bound, off by default): a third bound on BBR.bw,bw_delay, besidemax_bwandbw_shortterm. It works throughbound_bw_for_model, so it caps both pacing and the window.bw_delaydrops to the round's delivery rate, and the probe goes down, as it does on loss.bw_delaydrops to 0.85 × the delivery rate, which is GoogCC's backoff, so the queue drains.delay_bound_ignores_a_zero_ratecovers it).bw_delayto whatever non-app-limited delivery they reach. Probing, native duplicates included, still finds capacity that comes back.Metrics::bandwidth_estimate) is the lower ofmax_bwandbw_delay, so an encoder following it slows with the brake, and the bandwidth probe keeps probing while the brake holds the rate under its target (found by CodeRabbit;delay_bound_caps_the_bandwidth_estimatecovers it).DelayBasedBwesorts each feedback by receive time. A packet reordered within an ACK is then skipped as sent before the group in progress. Fed in send order, its negative arrival delta was discarded while the rebound after it counted, so reordering added up to false queue growth (found in review;reordered_within_an_ack_is_not_growthcovers it).Harness (
rs/moq-quic/src/tests/realtime.rs): sim replicas ofcellular-step,cellular-bursty, andcellular-deep. A bulk upload runs per candidate, with 8 seeds per preset, alone and beside one CUBIC upload. The table reports:Reaction time runs until pacing first falls to the dropped rate. Drain time runs until the queue falls under a quarter of its peak. The sim's
Linkgained scheduler grants, andBottleneckgained a time-bounded queue and a per-packet trace. Both now live inrs/moq-quic/src/sim.rs, where main moved them (moq-dev/moq#7377). The shared comparison adds the other candidates to it as aCandidateeach (GCC, moq-dev/moq#7546, landed without one).just rs quic-simprints it nightly.Probing under the brake:
probe.rsscenarios pick the media's controller,Congestion::DelayBoundamong them. The gate testrises_to_target_under_delay_boundpasses, and so does the nightlysteps_delay_bound(stopped-rung recovery on 8 seeds). Both run within the existing budgets.Results
Sim, 8 seeds, means, on
0d2f1de147, after merging main. Main's BBR3 retune (moq-dev/moq#7606) and window floor (moq-dev/moq#7650) moved both controllers' rows. The previous table, on5aeeac55, is in this PR's edit history. The uplink drops at 10s and comes back at 20s; queue figures are over 2–30s. "never N" counts the seeds whose run never got there; the mean is over the rest.cellular-stepandcellular-deep, where BBR3 gets 98%. Before this merge it was 92% and 95%, so main's BBR3 changes made the brake hold the rate further under the dropped capacity. This PR doesn't explain it.cellular-deepthat the brake used to leave in place (p50 103 vs 114ms on5aeeac55) is gone after the merge: p50 16 vs 80ms. Every seed on every preset now drains its queue,cellular-burstyin 2.3s on average.cellular-bursty, and by 2–3 points elsewhere. BBR3 itself gets only 9–20% against CUBIC on these deep buffers.Impact
bbr3::Config::delay_bound(bool)(namedBbr3Configbefore main's moq-dev/moq#7258). Off by default, so no behavior changes.transport::Config::receive_timestamps).moq_quic::sim(hidden, behind thesimfeature) gainsBottleneck::timed,Bottleneck::trace, andLink::grant. They are test-harness additions with no effect unless set.Decisions
Settled by the maintainer, ✅ 2026-11-01, and recorded in the epic's Plan:
bw_delaybound that REFILL does not reset and that Startup and UP raise. This is what the PR implements.bw_shortterm/inflight_shortterm), as loss does. Measured in the unit sim with a 4× drop: REFILL resets it to the stalemax_bwwithin a round trip, and the queue settled at 145–164ms, the same as BBR3.near-zeronoise floor included. The epic's Plan now says so.receive_tsintegration harness with a recording wrapper around BBR3.bbr3/, so dropping the candidate deletes it with the option.Choices made without asking
DELAY_BETA= 0.85, from GoogCC. A ProbeBW_UP stop sets the bound at 1.0 × the delivery rate, since that delivery rate is the capacity the probe found.gccflag to the probeScenario, beside this PR'sdelay_boundflag. They became oneCongestionenum (BBR3, the delay bound, or GCC), so no scenario can set both. GCC's rise test reuses this PR'sopening()scenario. Main replacedsubscribe_atwith an INFO-defaultsubscribe(), which the realtime table now uses, asreceive_ts's table does.LinkandBottleneckintors/moq-quic/src/sim.rs(moq-dev/moq#7377), so this PR's additions to them moved there too, unchanged apart frompub(super)becomingpub.Checks
On
0d2f1de147, Linux, inside the dev shell:just rs check-test -p moq-congestion -p moq-quic: passed, 1086 tests run, 1086 passed, 20 skipped. Clippy, fmt, doc, and the workspace checks passed.just rs test --release -p moq-quic --lib --run-ignored all -E 'test(/^tests::realtime::/) | test(/^tests::probe::(rises|steps_keyframes|steps_delay_bound|competing_cubic)/)': 8 passed, including main'srises_to_target_under_gcc. The Results table comes from this run.quest check --base origin/main: ok (551 documents).just ci, the Markdown lint, and macOS and Windows. CI covers them, and the change has no platform-specific code.Review
mechanical fix by quest land watch:
merged main at e9ffe82dfb0e5057261ff78fb172c3f9a64c74f5 with the quest merge driver(head 3a12e3c)Reviewer: Codex (other vendor to the Claude author), model
gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, viaquest review --new --base origin/main, session01a1a029.0d2f1de147: no findings.Online reviewers, all addressed:
5aeeac55: a zero-rate round setbw_delayto 0 (thread). Fixed inb36d5dcbd3;delay_bound_ignores_a_zero_ratecovers it.b36d5dcbd3:Controller::metricsreportedmax_bwwhilebw_delaybounded BBR.bw (thread). Fixed in597b60ed5a;delay_bound_caps_the_bandwidth_estimatecovers it.b36d5dcbd3: keepOVERUSE_TIMEandTHRESHOLD_MAX_STEPtyped asDuration, per the repository's typed-units rule. Fixed in0d2f1de147, converting withmillis()where the trend math needs anf64, asARRIVAL_OFFSET_THRESHOLDalready did.597b60ed5a: no new findings.Earlier rounds, on
4436f6e2and5aeeac55(session01a19924), are in this PR's edit history. Their one finding was fixed in5aeeac55.Follow-ups
near-zeronoise floor, as the epic's Plan now records.cellular-stepandcellular-deep. It was 92–95% before main's BBR3 retune (moq-dev/moq#7606).bw_delayfrom an app-limited delivery rate. The bound recovers at the next ProbeBW_UP (the probe scenarios with keyframes show no extra late frames), but a cut floored at the media rate may be worth measuring.tests/util.rssim changes verbatim. Since main moved that code intosim.rs, whichever of the two lands second resolves the same conflict by keeping one copy insim.rs. If it still adds a probe-scenario flag, it becomes aCongestionvariant.(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)
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