Instability of FIFO at arbitrarily low rates in the adversarial queuing model

Author

Bhattacharjee, Rajat ; Goel, Ashish

Author_Institution

Southern California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

167

Abstract

We study the stability of the commonly used packet forwarding protocol, FIFO (First In First Out), in the adversarial queuing model. We prove that FIFO can become unstable, i.e., lead to unbounded buffer-occupancies and queuing delays, at arbitrarily low injection rates. In order to demonstrate instability at rate r, we use a network of size polynomial in 1/r.

Keywords

packet switching; protocols; queueing theory; telecommunication network routing; FIFO; adversarial queuing model; first in first out; injection rate; packet forwarding protocol; queuing delay; unbounded buffer-occupancy; Computer science; Delay; Polynomials; Protocols; Queueing analysis; Robustness; Stability; Stochastic processes; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Foundations of Computer Science, 2003. Proceedings. 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on

ISSN

0272-5428

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2040-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SFCS.2003.1238190

Filename

1238190

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2169504