Wide-area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
The macroscopic behavior of the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Part II: control theory for buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Part III: routers with very small buffers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Part II: control theory for buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Open issues in router buffer sizing
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A DRAM/SRAM Memory Scheme for Fast Packet Buffers
IEEE Transactions on Computers
A critique of recently proposed buffer-sizing strategies
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
On queue provisioning, network efficiency and the transmission control protocol
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An SLA perspective on the router buffer sizing problem
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Stability and fairness of explicit congestion control with small buffers
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Buffer sizing results for RCP congestion control under connection arrivals and departures
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Perspectives on router buffer sizing: recent results and open problems
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Performance analysis of a Poisson-Pareto queue over the full range of system parameters
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Buffer management for lossless service in shared buffer switches
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Router buffer sizing for TCP traffic and the role of the output/input capacity ratio
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Convergence of trajectories and optimal buffer sizing for MIMD congestion control
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Denial of service attacks in networks with tiny buffers
INFOCOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE international conference on Computer Communications Workshops
Measurement and performance issues of transport protocols over 10Gbps high-speed optical networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A statistical bandwidth sharing perspective on buffer sizing
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The effects of fairness in buffer sizing
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Trading link utilization for queueing delays: An adaptive approach
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A practical on-line pacing scheme at edges of small buffer networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
ABS: Adaptive buffer sizing for heterogeneous networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Buffer sizing for 802.11-based networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Scalable QoS-aware memory controller for high-bandwidth packet memory
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Performance evaluation of a single node with general arrivals and service
ASMTA'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Analytical and stochastic modeling techniques and applications
Hermes: an integrated CPU/GPU microarchitecture for IP routing
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Impact of file arrivals and departures on buffer sizing in core routers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Anomalous loss performance for mixed real-time and TCP traffic in routers with very small buffers
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Brief paper: Self-clocking principle for congestion control in the Internet
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Efficient buffering and scheduling for a single-chip crosspoint-queued switch
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Is Tail-Optimal Scheduling Possible?
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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In this article we describe recent work on buffer sizing for core Internet routers. This work suggests that the widely-used rule of thumb leads to buffers which are much larger than they need to be. For example, the buffer in a backbone router could be reduced from 1,000,000 packets to 10,000 without loss in performance. It could be reduced even further, perhaps to 10-20 packets, at the cost of a small amount of bandwidth utilization. This tradeoff is worth considering, for example for a possible future all-optical router.