Fair packet discarding for controlling ABR traffic in ATM networks |
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| Authors: | Chan S Wong EWM Ko KT |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon; |
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| Abstract: | The asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) Forum has chosen rate-based control as the flow control scheme for the available bit-rate (ABR) service. However, rate-based schemes can achieve congestion control only if all users act in a cooperative manner. Even a limited number of uncooperative users can cause congestion collapse. We propose a mechanism called fair packet discarding to provide incentives to users to participate in network congestion control so that the network can operate in a more efficient manner |
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