The concept of fairness and a GFC protocol

Author

Hou, Xinli ; Niemegeers, Ignas G.

Author_Institution

Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands

fYear

1992

fDate

13-16 Sep 1992

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

35

Abstract

Multiple access to a single user-network interface (UNI) is a cost-effective solution for the provision of B-ISDN services in customer premises. In a multiple access configuration, a fairly shared access must ensure that each terminal will get a guaranteed bandwidth to provide an acceptable quality of service (QoS) and that the allocation of the remaining bandwidth will result in the same improvement of QoS for all the terminals. An approach to allocating the remaining bandwidth is proposed. It is based on both the guaranteed bandwidth required by the terminal and the probability that the terminal´s bit rate exceeds its guaranteed bandwidth. The basic generic flow control (GFC) protocol mechanism and the GFC field settings for a dual-bus customer premises network (CPN) are described

Keywords

B-ISDN; multi-access systems; network interfaces; protocols; B-ISDN services; GFC protocol; bandwidth; dual-bus customer premises network; fairness; generic flow control; multiple access; quality of service; shared access; single user-network interface; terminal bit rate; Access protocols; B-ISDN; Bandwidth; Bit rate; Channel allocation; Costs; Open systems; Quality of service; Standards development; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1992. Proceedings., 17th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3095-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1992.228177

Filename

228177