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Adaptive ABR congestion control with active buffer control
Author(s) -
Yuan X. J.,
Soong B. H.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.488
Subject(s) - network congestion , computer science , queue , scalability , flow control (data) , bandwidth (computing) , computer network , active queue management , queueing theory , network traffic control , buffer (optical fiber) , real time computing , network packet , telecommunications , database
ATM Forum has defined that the ABR service is designed mainly for data traffic. The design of a simple and efficient congestion control scheme is a problem that network managers have to face. In this paper, we propose a control scheme for ABR service for better scalability and response. The scheme uses both the load level and an increase in queue length to detect the presence of congestion. Continuous control functions are designed for the bandwidth allocation. A better buffer control is achieved by incorporating the percentage of buffer occupancy into the control function. All of the control functions are designed in such a way that they are sensitive to the change of the system states when they are far from the optimal level to get a fast response, but insensitive and change slowly when the states are close to the optimal level to keep the system around the steady state. Our simulation results show that the algorithm is fair to all the connections and it converges fast when the network's condition changes. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.