Buffer overflow management in QoS switches
STOC '01 Proceedings of the thirty-third annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Nearly optimal FIFO buffer management for DiffServ
Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Rate allocation and buffer management for differentiated services
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Towards a new internet architecture
JoBS: Joint Buffer Management and Scheduling for Differentiated Services
IWQoS '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Quality of Service
Buffer overflows of merging streams
Proceedings of the fifteenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures
Nearly optimal FIFO buffer management for two packet classes
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Thresholds: On the Need for Frame Discarding in Cell-Switched Networks
Journal of Network and Systems Management
The network as a storage device: dynamic routing with bounded buffers
APPROX'05/RANDOM'05 Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization Problems, and Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Randamization and Computation: algorithms and techniques
Application performance and service differentiation for best effort traffic in ATM networks
Computer Communications
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Selective packet dropping policies have been used to reduce congestion and transmission of traffic that would inevitably be retransmitted. For data applications using best-effort services, packet dropping policies (PDPs) are congestion management mechanisms implemented at each intermediate node that decide, reactively or proactively, to drop packets to reduce congestion and free up precious buffer space. While the primary goal of PDPs is to avoid or combat congestion, the individual PDP designs can significantly affect application throughput, network utilization, performance fairness, and synchronization problems with multiple transmission control protocol (TCP) connections. Scalability and simplicity are also important design issues. This article surveys the most important selective packet dropping policies that have been designed for best-effort traffic in ATM and IP networks, providing a comprehensive comparison between the different mechanisms.