Performance analysis of a feedback congestion control policy under non-negligible propagation delay
SIGCOMM '91 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architecture & protocols
ATM foundation for broadband networks
ATM foundation for broadband networks
Dynamical behavior of rate-based flow control mechanisms
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Communication Networks: A First Course
Communication Networks: A First Course
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues,Second Edition
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues,Second Edition
Feedback based flow control in ATM networks with multiple propagation delays
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 2
The available bit rate service for data in ATM networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The rate-based flow control framework for the available bit rate ATM service
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The next generation high speed networks which are characterized by large bandwidth propagation delay products are expected to support applications with diverse traffic characteristics and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Since statistical multiplexing is employed in these networks, congestion control and avoidance mechanisms are required for the delivery of QoS required by various applications.A number of reactive flow control schemes have been developed in the past for best effort applications. It has been well established that these schemes are not effective for networks with large bandwidth propagation delay products as the feedback information generated in the network can be outdated by the time it reaches the sources. In this paper, this problem (referred to as the bandwidth mismatch problem) is investigated and a proactive feedback (PF) based flow control scheme which attempts to eliminate the bandwidth mismatch problem by generating and transmitting early feedback messages is introduced. With cooperation among the network nodes and sources, the PF based flow control scheme can significantly increase the QoS delivered to the best effort applications. In addition to the increased level of delivered QoS, fair rate allocations to the best effort applications are also possible since the efficiency of the scheme becomes independent of the length of the propagation delays, once the bandwidth mismatch is eliminated.