Dynamic buffer management scheme based on rate estimation in packet-switched networks

  • Authors:
  • Jeong-woo Cho;Dong-ho Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, South Korea;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

While traffic volume of real-time applications is rapidly increasing, current routers do not guarantee minimum QoS values of fairness and drop packets in random fashion. If routers provide a minimum QoS, resulting less delays, more fairness, and smoother sending rates, TCP-friendly rate control (TFRC) can be adopted for real-time applications. We propose a dynamic buffer management scheme that meets the requirements described above, and can be applied to TCP flow and to data flow for transfer of real-time applications. The proposed scheme consists of a virtual threshold function, an accurate and stable per-flow rate estimation, a per-flow exponential drop probability, and a dropping strategy that guarantees fairness when there are many flows. Moreover, we introduce a practical definition of active flows to reduce the overhead coming from maintaining per-flow states. We discuss how proposed scheme motivates real-time applications to adopt TFRC.