Reduce send rate to 50% if overusing before we have an acknowledged bitrate.

webrtc/modules/congestion_controller/delay_based_bwe.cc

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   int64_t now_ms = clock_->TimeInMilliseconds();
 
   rtc::Optional<int> probe_bitrate_bps =
       probe_bitrate_estimator_.FetchAndResetLastEstimatedBitrateBps();
   // Currently overusing the bandwidth.
   if (overusing) {
     if (acked_bitrate_bps &&
         rate_control_.TimeToReduceFurther(now_ms, *acked_bitrate_bps)) {
       result.updated = UpdateEstimate(now_ms, acked_bitrate_bps, overusing,
                                       &result.target_bitrate_bps);
+    } else if (!acked_bitrate_bps && rate_control_.ValidEstimate() &&
+               rate_control_.TimeToReduceFurther(
+                   now_ms, rate_control_.LatestEstimate() / 2 - 1)) {
+      // Overusing before we have a measured acknowledged bitrate. We check
+      // TimeToReduceFurther (with a fake acknowledged bitrate) to avoid
+      // reducing too often

[stefan-webrtc, 2017/06/30 15:31:34]

End with .

[terelius, 2017/07/04 11:01:11]

Done.

+      // TODO(tschumim): Improve this and/or the acknowledged bitrate estimator
+      // so that we (almost) always have a bitrate estimate.
+      rate_control_.SetEstimate(rate_control_.LatestEstimate() / 2, now_ms);
+      result.updated = true;
+      result.probe = false;
+      result.target_bitrate_bps = rate_control_.LatestEstimate();
+      printf("Halving send rate because no acknowledged bitrate\n");

[stefan-webrtc, 2017/06/30 15:31:34]

Remove

[terelius, 2017/07/04 11:01:11]

Done. Thanks.

     }
   } else {
     if (probe_bitrate_bps) {
       rate_control_.SetEstimate(*probe_bitrate_bps, now_ms);
       result.probe = true;
     }
     result.updated = UpdateEstimate(now_ms, acked_bitrate_bps, overusing,
                                     &result.target_bitrate_bps);
   }
   if (result.updated) {
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 void DelayBasedBwe::SetMinBitrate(int min_bitrate_bps) {
   // Called from both the configuration thread and the network thread. Shouldn't
   // be called from the network thread in the future.
   rate_control_.SetMinBitrate(min_bitrate_bps);
 }
 
 int64_t DelayBasedBwe::GetExpectedBwePeriodMs() const {
   return rate_control_.GetExpectedBandwidthPeriodMs();
 }
 }  // namespace webrtc