May 6, 2012 Volume 10, issue 5 PDF Controlling Queue Delay A modern AQM is just one piece of the solution to bufferbloat. Kathleen Nichols, Pollere Inc. Van Jacobson, PARC Nearly three decades after it was first diagnosed, the “persistently full buffer problem,” recently exposed as part of bufferbloat,6,7 is still with us and made increasingly critical by two trends. First, cheap memory and a “mor