Data networks
SIGCOMM '88 Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols
Feedback control of congestion in packet switching networks: the case of a single congested node
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Time scale analysis scalability issues for explicit rate allocation in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A control-theoretic approach to the design of an explicit rate controller for ABR service
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Enhanced distributed explicit rate allocation for ABR services in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The ERICA switch algorithm for ABR traffic management in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Explicit rate flow control for ABR services in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Computer Controlled Systems: Theory and Design
Computer Controlled Systems: Theory and Design
An ABR Feedback Control Scheme with Tracking
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Adaptive algorithms for feedback-based flow control in high-speed, wide-area ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The rate-based flow control framework for the available bit rate ATM service
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
End-to-end rate-based congestion control: convergence properties and scalability analysis
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Traffic management and resource allocation in small wired/wireless networks
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Distributed max-min flow control for multi-rate overlay multicast
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A new estimation scheme for the effective number of users in internet congestion control
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Rate-controlled optical burst switching for both congestion avoidance and service differentiation
Optical Switching and Networking
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In this paper, we present a novel control-theoretic explicit rate (ER) allocation algorithm for the MAX-MIN flow control of elastic traffic services with minimum rate guarantee in the setting of the ATM available bit rate (ABR) service. The proposed ER algorithm is simple in that the number of operations required to compute it at a switch is minimized, scalable in that per-virtual-circuit (VC) operations including per-VC queueing, per VC accounting, and per-VC state management are virtually removed, and stable in that by employing it, the user transmission rates and the network queues are asymptotically stabilized at a unique equilibrium point at which MAX-MIN fairness with minimum rate guarantee and target queue lengths are achieved, respectively. To improve the speed of convergence, we normalize the controller gains of the algorithm by the estimate of the number of locally bottle-necked VCs. The estimation scheme is also computationally simple and scalable since it does not require per-VC accounting either. We verify its agreement with the practical performance through simulations in the case of multiple bottleneck nodes. We believe that the proposed algorithm will serve as an encouraging solution to the MAX-MIN flow control of elastic traffic services, the deployment of which has been debated long due to their lack of theoretical foundation and implementation complexity.