Dynamics of TCP traffic over ATM networks
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Reliable and efficient hop-by-hop flow control
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Improvements to TCP performance in high-speed ATM networks
Communications of the ACM
Intelligent congestion control for ABR service in ATM networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Rate-based congestion control for ATM networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Congestion control and traffic management in ATM networks: recent advances and a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Buffer management and flow control in the Credit Net ATM host interface
LCN '95 Proceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Receiver-oriented adaptive buffer allocation in credit-based flow control for ATM networks
INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 1)-Volume - Volume 1
PERFORMANCE OF TCP OVER MULTI-HOP ATM NETWORKS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ATM-LAYER CONGESTION CONTROL SCHEMES
Time scale analysis of explicit rate allocation in ATM networks
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
Scalability issues for distributed explicit rate allocation in ATM networks
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
The rate-based flow control framework for the available bit rate ATM service
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Integration of rate and credit schemes for ATM flow control
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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A critical issue in the design of fast packet-switch-based networks is the avoidance of data loss due to congestion. In the context of ATM networks, many link-level congestion control mechanisms for ABR traffic have been proposed and simulated, and a few have been implemented. This paper presents, for the first time, an experimental comparison of several such mechanisms. To drive this comparison, we have developed a set of benchmarks that provide a quantitative characterization of congestion control performance. We also describe a simple but novel technique, the ``virtual port card'', for implementing both non-native switch behavior and long link delays in ATM networks. This technique allows us to compare a wide range of mechanisms on a single flexible hardware platform. Our measurements show that while several of the ATM flow control mechanisms can eliminate cell loss, there are still several unresolved problems. First, for some traffic scenarios we see very poor application-level performance, especially in the presence of bursty traffic. Second, performance is very sensitive to the flow control parameters and identifying an appropriate set of parameters is difficult since it depends heavily on the traffic conditions.