Design and analysis of a credit-based controller for congestion control in B-ISDN/ATM networks

Author

Ren, Jing-Fei ; Mark, Jon W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1995

fDate

2-6 Apr 1995

Firstpage

40

Abstract

A credit-based controller (CBC), which has a provision for cell tagging, is proposed for usage parameter control (UPC). Similar in concept to the leaky bucket, the CBC has a credit counter and a data buffer. Credits are accumulated at a rate initiated from the network (equivalent to the sustainable cell rate), and depleted at a rate pertaining to the network traffic load. A source has the prerogative whether or not to send its cells as tagged cells when the credit level is nonpositive. The queueing behavior of the CBC fed by a Marcov modulated source, is analyzed using a stochastic fluid flow model. It is shown that the performance of the CBC can be altered by tuning the weighting parameter within the CBC. Also, adjustments can be made to balance the ratio of tagged and untagged cells sent into the network

Keywords

B-ISDN; Markov processes; asynchronous transfer mode; queueing theory; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; ATM networks; B-ISDN; Markov modulated source; cell tagging; congestion control; credit counter; credit-based controller; data buffer; performance; queueing behavior; stochastic fluid flow model; usage parameter control; weighting parameter; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Communication system traffic control; Intelligent networks; Quality of service; Tagging; Telecommunication congestion control; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '95. Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Bringing Information to People. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6990-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1995.515858

Filename

515858