Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm
SIGCOMM '89 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
Virtual clock: a new traffic control algorithm for packet switching networks
SIGCOMM '90 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Communications architectures & protocols
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Efficient fair queueing using deficit round robin
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Hierarchical packet fair queueing algorithms
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Start-time fair queueing: a scheduling algorithm for integrated services packet switching networks
Conference proceedings on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
SRR: An O(1) time complexity packet scheduler for flows in multi-service packet networks
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Leap Forward Virtual Clock: A New Fair Queuing Scheme with Guaranteed Delay and Throughput Fairness
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Stratified round Robin: a low complexity packet scheduler with bandwidth fairness and bounded delay
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Tradeoffs between low complexity, low latency, and fairness with deficit round-robin schedulers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
WF2Q: worst-case fair weighted fair queueing
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 1
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Fair bandwidth allocation is an important mechanism for traffic management in the Internet. Round robin schedulers, such as Deficit Round Robin (DRR), are well-suited for implementing fair queueing in multi-Gbps routers, as they schedule packets in constant time regardless of the total number of active flows. The main drawback of these schemes, however, lies in the maintenance of per flow queues, which complicates the buffer management module and limits the sharing of the buffer space among the competing flows. In this paper, we introduce a novel packet scheduling mechanism, called Vertical Dimensioning (VD) that modifies the original DRR algorithm to operate without per flow queueing. In particular, VD is based on an array of FIFO buffers, whose size is constant and independent of the total number of active flows. Our results, both analytical and experimental, demonstrate that VD exhibits very good fairness and delay properties that are comparable to the ideal Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ) scheduler. Furthermore, our scheduling algorithm is shown to outperform significantly existing round robin schedulers when the amount of buffering at the router is small.