A simplified approach based on source control for ATM ABR service

✍ Scribed by Chun-Liang Lee; Yaw-Chung Chen; Jin-Ru Chen

• Book ID: 104273709
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 230 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-3664
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(00)00344-3

✦ Synopsis

The available bit rate (ABR) service is designed to provide ef®cient support of data traf®c in ATM networks. A variety of rate-based ¯ow control approaches have been proposed to support ABR service. Most of these approaches improve both the fairness among active connections and the link utilization by putting more and more complexity into a switch. In this article, we propose a ¯ow control approach in which part of rate-calculation work is moved from switches to end-systems. As a result, the proposed approach reduces the rate-calculation effort in the switch. This may reduce the switch complexity and thus the implementation cost. Furthermore, it mitigates the dif®culty for setting the measurement interval in switches, as well as features lower and more stable queue occupancy in the network. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves better performance than ERICA 1 , a well-known switch algorithm.