An ABR Feedback Control Scheme with Tracking

  • Authors:
  • Cathy Fulton;San-qi Li;Chang Soo Lim

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We propose an explicit-rate ABR feedback control scheme, UT (Uniform Tracking). The distinct feature of UT is that it achieves max-min fairness by tracking an effective number of sources; specific constraint information is not required. As a result, its implementation is much simpler than that of other fair control schemes; indeed, its complexity is similar to that of *unfair* explicit-rate controls. In the thorough simulation study, UT demonstrates its ability to scale with speed, distance, number of users (both persistent and bursty), and number of switches while remaining robust, efficient, and fair under stressing conditions with MPEG background traffic and multiple propagation delay loops.