A new EFCI scheme with ability of periodically setting for ABR flow control in ATM networks

Author

Leng, Xiaobing ; Fu, Lizheng ; Luan, Guixing

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Acad. Sinica, Shenyang, China

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

132

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new ABR flow control scheme based on explicit forward congestion indication (EFCI). The main idea of this scheme is extending the use of the EFCI bit function, and making it not only transmit the congestion status, but also transmit queue length information implicitly. The transmission of queue length information is implemented by periodically setting the EFCI bit in the header of the ABR data cells. The result of simulation indicates that this new scheme has better control behavior than the basic EFCI scheme. It has lower oscillation amplitude of allowed cell rate (ACR) and queue length, higher link utilization, and better cost/performance

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; queueing theory; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; ABR flow control; ATM networks; allowed cell rate; congestion status; explicit forward congestion indication; link utilization; queue length information; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bit rate; Computers; Costs; Delay; Feedback control; Intelligent networks; Quality of service; Switches; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ATM (ICATM 2001) and High Speed Intelligent Internet Symposium, 2001. Joint 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7093-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICATM.2001.932070

Filename

932070