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- From: craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge)
- Subject: > Congestion Avoidance
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.165554.8612@sics.se>
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:55:54 GMT
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- There's plenty of work going on to try to avoid having ATM use the horribly
- wasteful peak bandwidth approach. (Why is it wasteful? Well, because
- the peak bandwidth typically isn't being used, but by having chopped the
- full circuit bandwidth into connections, you've made sharing of the unused
- bandwidth harder. It is usually better to completely share the entire
- bandwidth of the link, than to break it up into smaller fixed bandwidth
- channels).
-
- One key problem is that data communications traffic is typically not
- nicely IID and thus M/*/n queueing models are of little help. (The
- Sunshine switch designers reported that when they tried a more realistic
- model of data traffic they found the buffering requirements were an
- order of magnitude larger than M/*/n models predicted). One can rapidly
- find oneself analyzing queueing theory problems that cause experts to
- shudder.
-
- However, there are some nice ideas. Some of the token bucket schemes
- (a variant of leaky bucket) have been shown to give delay and bandwidth
- guarantees over cell networks. See Parekh's MIT dissertation for one.
-
- Craig Partridge
- craig@bbn.com
-