Using Edge-to-Edge Feedback Control to Make Assured Service More Assured in DiffServ Networks

  • Authors:
  • K. R. R. Kumar;A. L. Ananda;L. Jacob

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • LCN '01 Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Markers, one of the building blocks of a trafficconditioner play a major role for resource allocation in aDiffServ network.Recently, there has been a considerableresearch interest in designing intelligent markers, tailoredfor TCP traffic.The transient congestion levels in thenetwork can affect the TCP throughput adversely andhave great impact on the effectiveness of the marker.Toaddress this issue, we propose an intelligent marker,which relies on an ECN-like feedback control mechanismbetween ingress and egress traffic conditioners.Wepresent the control architecture and the marker algorithm,and illustrate the benefits of the proposed marker in aDiffServ network. The marker was implemented in NSsimulator and extensive simulations were done to study itseffectiveness in the assurance of throughput, especiallyunder the case that AS flows require different target rates,and co-exist with the unruly UDP flows.The ECN-likefeedback mechanism that we use for the marker is alsosuitable in an MPLS domain for providing signaling to theingress router of a congested label switched path (LSP) tomitigate congestion via dynamic traffic engineeringtechniques.