A binary feedback scheme for congestion avoidance in computer networks
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
An overview of the AURORA gigabit testbed
IEEE INFOCOM '92 Proceedings of the eleventh annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies on One world through communications (Vol. 2)
Performance evaluation of Forward Error Correction in ATM networks
SIGCOMM '92 Conference proceedings on Communications architectures & protocols
Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A brief overview of ATM: protocol layers, LAN emulation, and traffic management
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A reliable multicast framework for light-weight sessions and application level framing
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The available bit rate service for data in ATM networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Dynamics of TCP traffic over ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
A rough comparison of the IETF and ATM service models
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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If the reliability provided by the network is lower than that requested by the application, the error and flow control systems in the end-nodes must make up for the difference. While most applications use retransmission based schemes to recover lost data, ARQ based closed loop techniques may not be suitable for many new applications. Time sensitive information requiring no-loss of data would constitute a major segment of the emerging traffic (interactive web, videophones, CSCW) that typically employ Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes. Such codes send redundant information which help to recover lost data without retransmission. This paper shows that just plain FEC is not enough when one considers the fragmentation effects that takes place when legacy networks interwork with ATM. Simple yet powerful buffer management techniques can yield higher throughput thereby reducing block loss rates. A combination of a gatekeeping operation along with janitor routine that cleans up the buffer to preserve frames on an end-to-end basis is proposed. A simulation study demonstrates positive results. The proposed schemes even point towards efficient sizing of ATM switch buffers which guarantee no-loss transport of real-time information.