Only use payload size within the receive/send interval for bitrate probing.

webrtc/modules/congestion_controller/probe_bitrate_estimator.cc

 /*
  *  Copyright (c) 2016 The WebRTC project authors. All Rights Reserved.
  *
  *  Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
  *  that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
  *  tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
  *  in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
  *  be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
  */
 
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 ProbingResult ProbeBitrateEstimator::PacketFeedback(
     const PacketInfo& packet_info) {
   // If this is not a probing packet or if this probing packet
   // belongs to an old cluster, do nothing.
   if (packet_info.probe_cluster_id == PacketInfo::kNotAProbe ||
       packet_info.probe_cluster_id < last_valid_cluster_id_) {
     return ProbingResult();
   }
 
+  int payload_size = packet_info.payload_size * 8;

[danilchap, 2016/08/22 13:53:35]

may be call it payload_size_bits

[philipel, 2016/08/22 14:06:40]

Done.

   AggregatedCluster* cluster = &clusters_[packet_info.probe_cluster_id];
-  cluster->first_send_ms =
-      std::min(cluster->first_send_ms, packet_info.send_time_ms);
-  cluster->last_send_ms =
-      std::max(cluster->last_send_ms, packet_info.send_time_ms);
-  cluster->first_receive_ms =
-      std::min(cluster->first_receive_ms, packet_info.arrival_time_ms);
-  cluster->last_receive_ms =
-      std::max(cluster->last_receive_ms, packet_info.arrival_time_ms);
-  cluster->size += packet_info.payload_size * 8;
+  if (packet_info.send_time_ms < cluster->first_send_ms) {
+    cluster->first_send_ms = packet_info.send_time_ms;
+  }
+  if (packet_info.send_time_ms > cluster->last_send_ms) {
+    cluster->last_send_ms = packet_info.send_time_ms;
+    cluster->size_last_send = payload_size;
+  }
+  if (packet_info.arrival_time_ms < cluster->first_receive_ms) {
+    cluster->first_receive_ms = packet_info.arrival_time_ms;
+    cluster->size_first_receive = payload_size;
+  }
+  if (packet_info.arrival_time_ms > cluster->last_receive_ms) {
+    cluster->last_receive_ms = packet_info.arrival_time_ms;
+  }
+  cluster->size_total += payload_size;
   cluster->num_probes += 1;
 
   // Clean up old clusters.
   while (clusters_.size() > kMaxNumSavedClusters)
     clusters_.erase(clusters_.begin());
 
   if (cluster->num_probes < kMinNumProbesValidCluster)
     return ProbingResult();
 
   float send_interval_ms = cluster->last_send_ms - cluster->first_send_ms;
   float receive_interval_ms =
       cluster->last_receive_ms - cluster->first_receive_ms;
 
-  // Since the send/receive interval does not include the send/receive time of
-  // the last/first packet we expand the interval by the average inverval
-  // between the probing packets.
-  float interval_correction =
-      static_cast<float>(cluster->num_probes) / (cluster->num_probes - 1);
-  send_interval_ms *= interval_correction;
-  receive_interval_ms *= interval_correction;
-
   if (send_interval_ms == 0 || receive_interval_ms == 0) {
     LOG(LS_INFO) << "Probing unsuccessful, invalid send/receive interval"
                  << " [cluster id: " << packet_info.probe_cluster_id
                  << "] [send interval: " << send_interval_ms << " ms]"
                  << " [receive interval: " << receive_interval_ms << " ms]";
 
     return ProbingResult();
   }
-  float send_bps = static_cast<float>(cluster->size) / send_interval_ms * 1000;
-  float receive_bps =
-      static_cast<float>(cluster->size) / receive_interval_ms * 1000;
+  // Since the |send_interval_ms| does not include the time it takes to actually
+  // send the last packet the size of the last sent packet should not be
+  // included when calculating the send bitrate.
+  float send_size = cluster->size_total - cluster->size_last_send;

[danilchap, 2016/08/22 13:53:35]

probably RTC_DCHECK_GT(cluster->size_total - cluster->size_last_send, 0);
[e.g. to catch when payload size would be reported as 0 for padding packets]

[philipel, 2016/08/22 14:06:40]

Done.

+  float send_bps = send_size / send_interval_ms * 1000;
+
+  // Since the |receive_interval_ms| does not include the time it takes to
+  // actually receive the first packet the size of the first received packet
+  // should not be included when calculating the receive bitrate.
+  float receive_size = cluster->size_total - cluster->size_first_receive;
+  float receive_bps = receive_size / receive_interval_ms * 1000;
+
   float ratio = receive_bps / send_bps;
   if (ratio > kValidRatio) {
     LOG(LS_INFO) << "Probing unsuccessful, receive/send ratio too high"
                  << " [cluster id: " << packet_info.probe_cluster_id
-                 << "] [send: " << cluster->size << " bytes / "
-                 << send_interval_ms << " ms = " << send_bps / 1000 << " kb/s]"
-                 << " [receive: " << cluster->size << " bytes / "
+                 << "] [send: " << send_size << " bytes / " << send_interval_ms
+                 << " ms = " << send_bps / 1000 << " kb/s]"
+                 << " [receive: " << receive_size << " bytes / "
                  << receive_interval_ms << " ms = " << receive_bps / 1000
                  << " kb/s]"
                  << " [ratio: " << receive_bps / 1000 << " / "
                  << send_bps / 1000 << " = " << ratio << " > kValidRatio ("
                  << kValidRatio << ")]";
 
     return ProbingResult();
   }
   // We have a valid estimate.
   int result_bps = std::min(send_bps, receive_bps);
   last_valid_cluster_id_ = packet_info.probe_cluster_id;
   LOG(LS_INFO) << "Probing successful"
                << " [cluster id: " << packet_info.probe_cluster_id
-               << "] [send: " << cluster->size << " bytes / "
-               << send_interval_ms << " ms = " << send_bps / 1000 << " kb/s]"
-               << " [receive: " << cluster->size << " bytes / "
+               << "] [send: " << send_size << " bytes / " << send_interval_ms
+               << " ms = " << send_bps / 1000 << " kb/s]"
+               << " [receive: " << receive_size << " bytes / "
                << receive_interval_ms << " ms = " << receive_bps / 1000
                << " kb/s]";
 
   return ProbingResult(result_bps, packet_info.arrival_time_ms);
 }
 }  // namespace webrtc