Packet Processing Delay (PPD)

The PPD parameter is a 16-bit word exchanged during the Call Control phase that represents tenths of a second (64 means 6.4 seconds). The protocol only specifies that the parameter is exchanged, it does not specify how it is calculated. The way values for PPD are calculated is implementation-dependent and need not be variable (static time-outs are allowed). The PPD must be exchanged in the call connect sequences, even if it remains constant in an implementation. One possible way to calculate the PPD is:

PPD' = ((PPP_MAX_DATA_MTU - Header) * WindowSize * 8) / ConnectRate

PPD = PPD' + PACFudge

Header is the total size of the IP and GRE headers, which is 36. The MTU is the overall MTU for the internetwork link between the PAC and PNS. WindowSize represents the number of packets in the sliding window, and is implementation-dependent. The latency of the internetwork could be used to pick a window size sufficient to keep the current session's pipe full. The constant 8 converts octets to bits (assuming ConnectRate is in bits per second).  If ConnectRate is in bytes per second, omit the 8. PACFudge is not required but can be used to take overall processing overhead of the PAC into account.

The value of PPD is used to seed the adaptive algorithm with the initial RTT[n-1] value.