A congestion control approach for LAN/MAN interconnection via ATM

Author

Lin, T.Y. ; Chen, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

1994

fDate

12-16 Jun 1994

Firstpage

892

Abstract

The main congestion problem for LAN/MAN interconnection via ATM lies in the possibility of congestion at the receiving gateway. The authors propose a buffer management scheme that stores packets in a buffer if there is a speed mismatch between the source gateways and the receiving gateway. If congestion occurs in the source gateway, it sends a source quench message to slow down the traffic from the host. They calculate the buffer size of the receiving gateway according to the bandwidth of the virtual paths, the number of virtual paths connected, the mean packet size, and the propagation delay of the turn-off signal. Their method can reduce the processing overhead of the gateways as well as achieve real-time control

Keywords

LAN interconnection; asynchronous transfer mode; metropolitan area networks; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; telecommunications control; ATM; LAN/MAN interconnection; bandwidth; buffer management; buffer size; congestion control; mean packet size; processing overhead reduction; propagation delay; real-time control; receiving gateway; source gateways; source quench message; traffic; turn-off signal; virtual paths; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Buffer overflow; Buffer storage; Channel allocation; Computer science; Integrated circuit interconnections; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Propagation delay;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '94. Networking for Global Communications., 13th Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5570-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1994.337648

Filename

337648