Rate-based congestion control for ATM networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Dynamical behavior of rate-based flow control mechanisms
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Network buffer requirements of the rate-based control mechanism for ABR services
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
Adaptive algorithms for feedback-based flow control in high-speed, wide-area ATM networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Scalable flow control for multicast ABR services in ATM networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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We propose a flow-control scheme that combines the merits of credit- and rate-based flow-control schemes by applying direct control over both bandwidth and buffer resources. The goal of the proposed scheme is to design an optimal rate-control policy for a given finite buffer capacity that maximizes average throughput and bounds end-to-end delay. By applying higher-order rate control, the proposed scheme not only makes the rate process converge to the neighborhood of link bandwidth, but also confines the queue-length fluctuation to a regime bounded by buffer capacity (thus guaranteeing lossless transmission). Using the fluid approximation method, we model the proposed flow-control scheme and study the system dynamic behavior for ABR (Available Bit Rate) service under the most stressful traffic condition. We derive the expressions for queue build-ups and average throughput in both transient and equilibrium states. The analytical results have shown the proposed scheme to be stable and efficient in that the source rate and bottleneck queue length rapidly converge to the designated operating region. Also, presented are examples showing that the proposed scheme outperforms the other existing schemes.