Inter-receiver fairness: a novel performance measure for multicast ABR sessions
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Achieving bounded fairness for multicast and TCP traffic in the Internet
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Multipoint-to-multipoint ABR service in ATM
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Special issue on ATM traffic management
Use-it-or-lose-it policies for the available bit rate (ABR) service in ATM networks
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Scaling of multicast trees: comments on the Chuang-Sirbu scaling law
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The ERICA switch algorithm for ABR traffic management in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An efficient rate allocation algorithm for ATM networks providing max-min fairness
Proceedings of the IFIP Sixth International Conference on High Performance Networking VI
SEAM: Scalable and Efficient ATM Multicast
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
A Definition of General Weighted Fairness and its Support in Explicit Rate Switch Algorithms
ICNP '98 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Network Protocols
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Multipoint-to-multipoint communication can be implemented by combining the point-to-multipoint and multipoint-to-point connection algorithms. In an ATM multipoint-to-point connection, multiple sources send data to the same destination on a shared tree. Traffic from multiple branches is merged into a single stream after every merge point. It is sometimes impossible for the network to determine any source-specific characteristics since all sources in the multipoint connection may use the same connection identifiers. The challenge is to develop a fair rate allocation algorithm without per-source accounting as this is inequivalent to per-connection or per-flow accounting in this case. We define fairness objectives for multipoint connections, and we design and simulate an O(1) fair ATM-ABR rate allocation scheme for point-to-point and multipoint connections sharing the same links. Simulation results show that the algorithm performs well and exhibits many desirable properties. We list key modifications necessary for any ATM-ABR rate allocation scheme to fairly accommodate multiple sources.