Abstract
Weaknesses in several recently proposed ideas about congestion control and avoidance in high-speed netwroks are identified. Both sides of the debate concerning prior reservation of resources versus walk-in service, open-loop control versus feedback control, rate control versus window control, and router-based control versus source-based control are presented. The circumstances under which backpressure is useful or not are discussed, and it is argued that a single congestion scheme is not sufficient, but that a combination of several schemes is required for complete congestion management in a network.
Keywords
Network congestionCongestion managementComputer networkReservationRouterComputer scienceSlow-startControl (management)Artificial intelligence
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Raj Jain
(1998).
Myths about Congestion Management in High Speed Networks.
arXiv (Cornell University)
, 55-70.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809088
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- 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809088