Congestion control with a new fairness criterion for multicast ABR service in ATM networks

Author

Nho, J.-M. ; Shim, K.-H. ; Lim, J.-T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

146

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

The authors present an explicit-rate (ER) based congestion control scheme for multicast available bit rate (ABR) service in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks which support bandwidth allocation with a new fairness criterion, and analyse the stability of the network for both the unicast connections case and the unicast-plus-multicast connections case. Specifically, under the new fairness criterion, the allowed cell rate (ACR) for a connection is proportional to the difference between the peak cell rate (PCR) and the minimum cell rate (MCR) of the connection. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is confirmed by computer simulations

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; bandwidth allocation; multicast communication; stability; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication networks; telecommunication services; ATM networks; allowed cell rate; asynchronous transfer mode; available bit rate; bandwidth allocation; computer simulations; explicit-rate based congestion control; fairness criterion; minimum cell rate; multicast ABR service; network stability; peak cell rate; unicast connections; unicast-plus-multicast connections;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEE Proceedings-

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-2425

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-com:19990355

Filename

788001