Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Scalable QoS provision through buffer management
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Explicit allocation of best-effort packet delivery service
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The drop from front strategy in TCP and in TCP over ATM
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
Maintaining high throughput during overload in ATM switches
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
Packet dropping policies for ATM and IP networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Buffer management schemes for supporting TCP in gigabit routers with per-flow queueing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Dynamics of TCP traffic over ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A case for relative differentiated services and the proportional differentiation model
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Best effort services continue to be simple and cheap and one of the most widely used networking services. For this class of service the network provides no QoS guarantees and applications compete with each other to gain the network resources they need. In this environment, the Packet Dropping Policy (PDP) is the most important and influential mechanism. PDPs can improve the application performance and the network utilization, achieve fairness among the competing connections, isolate traffic, and even provide service predictability and traffic differentiation. Although there are many Selective Packet Dropping mechanisms for the ATM Unspecified Bit Rate (UBR) service category, there is no single and best policy yet. All of them have advantages and disadvantages and finding a good policy for all scenarios is not easy. In this article we present a flexible PDP called Preemptive Partial Packet Discard (pPPD) that provides better application performance and network utilization than current alternatives. In addition, we demonstrate the flexibility of pPPD proposing four pPPD variants including pPPD-DS, meant to enhance the best effort service and provide relative traffic differentiation. pPPD-DS is proposed as a mechanism to implement the Behaviour Classes recently approved by the ATM Forum in the Differentiated UBR traffic management specifications for the support of the IETF Differentiated Model over ATM networks.