Enhanced measurement-based admission control for flow-aware networks

Fair rate degradation and its negative impact on the performance of transmissions in Flow-Aware Networks is a documented problem. In addition, a simple solution to the problem is known. In this paper, it is shown that the measurement-based admission control block can be enhanced so that the problem of fair rate degradation becomes negligible. The proposed solution allows better tuning of the mechanism and, therefore, provides better quality assurance. It is shown that the amount of time in which the fair rate drops below a certain threshold can be drastically minimized compared to the standard static approach.