A novel explicit rate flow control mechanism in ATM networks

The explicit rate flow control mechanisms for ABR service are used to control congestion in ATM networks and to assign the available bandwidth of a bottleneck link among many ABR competitive users reasonably and fairly. In this paper, a control theoretic approach that uses a deadbeat-response (DR) controller to the design of an explicit rate flow control mechanism is present, and the mechanism has a very simple structure. We show that this mechanism exhibits excellent transient and steady state performance through several simulation experiments