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- From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Subject: Flow Control
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.205820.11179@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Sender: news@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (News)
- Reply-To: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 20:58:20 GMT
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- Bursty Data Flow Control Issue:
-
- The near term flow control problem can be limited to solving the
- bursty data problem in the local area environment where we need to
- duplicate the current services offered by FDDI and switched ethernet.
-
- Currently there is no mechanism, short of using routers, which
- allows bursty traffic across wide area networks. So in the WAN case
- the net can require circuit building procedures with implied bandwidth
- reservation and rate based data release, or require the use of embedded
- routers.
-
- Ron suggested a "backpressure" (did Tyment invent this term?) method
- which can be used in a local multi-hop environment.
-
- Ron's method does duplicate the implicit congestion control which
- distributed LANs currently employ in the sense that bursty traffic ties
- up all source destination pairs though some pairs may be disjoint from
- the original offending pair.
-
- Ron's method has not solved the WAN feedback issue, namely that the
- host may have released the entire burst load before receiving the RBCE
- bit. However in a local environment when links are short and hops few,
- the feedback delay is small enough to that the RBCE should migrate back
-
- The method could be applied independently in local regions so that a RBCE
- does not back down a wide area link into another local region which didn't
- causing the original problem.
-
- Thus I am opinioning:
-
- * Accept a hop by hop feedback mechanism for the local environment,
- dis-allowing its usage across multiple domains. Thus duplicating
- existing LAN service.
-
- * Use embedded routers to duplicate existing service over WANs.
-
- * Newer services such as voice or video applications, distributed
- database, transaction routing, high speed channel to channel transfer
- must use the new bandwidth reservation mechanisms and call set up.
-