A congestion control framework for high-speed integrated packetized transport

The authors briefly discuss general congestion control design approaches in the context of integrated, packetized transport for a public, broadband ISDN (integrated services digital network) environment. A framework is developed for the congestion control design that is applicable to asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), and related performance issues and standardization requirements are identified. The proposed congestion control approach is simple, fair, and non-service-optimized, and it allows an explicit tradeoff to be made between transport performance and bandwidth efficiency. Through this framework, the authors envision future integrated multimedia networks where terminals could efficiently shape their traffic flow characteristics to match those required by transport controls