Active queue management with flow proportional buffering

  • Authors:
  • James Aweya;Michel Ouellette;Delfin Y. Montuno

  • Affiliations:
  • Nortel Networks, P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4H7;Nortel Networks, P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4H7;Nortel Networks, P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada K1Y 4H7

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Network Management
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Most active queue management schemes maintain an average of the queue length which they use together with a number of queue thresholds to detect congestion. However, the setting of the queue thresholds is problematic because the required buffer size for good sharing among TCP connections is dependent on the number of TCP connections using the buffer. This paper describes an improved active queue management scheme which dynamically changes its threshold settings as the number of connections and system load changes. This technique allows network devices to effectively control packet losses and TCP timeouts while maintaining high link utilization.