Dynamic traffic control using feedback and traffic prediction in ATM networks

It has previously been found that feedback in an ATM network is useful in the long run to alleviate congestion. This general conclusion, although theoretically important, does not address the practical concern as to how the network behaves when it is adjusting itself in the short to medium range. The work reported in the paper is motivated by this practical concern. A new feedback based dynamic traffic control mechanism (called the balanced mechanism) is proposed and compared with the pure preventive congestion control (PCC) and an existing feedback based mechanism, known as explicit forward congestion notification (EFCN). It is shown that the balanced mechanism outperforms both PCC and the EFCN