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- From: miw@cc.uq.oz.au (Mark I. Williams)
- Subject: Re: Congestion Avoidance
- Message-ID: <miw.712192253@cc.uq.oz.au>
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- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
- References: <1992Jul18.230550.3046@sics.se> <1992Jul19.130005.1@research.ptt.nl> <1992Jul25.092823.12189@e2big.mko.dec.com> <k3jm90-.nagle@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:10:53 GMT
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- nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
-
- > Uh oh. As the one-time congestion maven of the Internet
- >(look at the RFCs that bear my name) I somehow thought the cell relay
- >people had developed a new solution to the problem that would make
- >huge connectionless nets work. If they haven't, there's going to be
- >trouble a few years downstream.
-
- You're right. Congestion avoidance is still the big bugbear for ATM.
- There is still (or wasn't 8 months ago) a generally accepted algorithm
- for bandwidth allocation that performed better than peak-rate
- multiplexing, although everybody is sure that some degree of statistical
- multiplexing will be possible.
-
- Of course, that situation is where we are now. With the current
- circuit-switched network we are using peak-rate multiplexing by
- definition.
-
- cheers,
-
-
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- Mark Williams The University of Queensland miw@cc.uq.edu.au
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