Flow aggregation and scalability with ROBIN: end-to-end regulation of bandwidth in intra-networks

Author

Baatz, Simon ; Frank, Matthias ; Martini, Peter ; Wenzel, Andre

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci. IV, Bonn Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Firstpage

212

Lastpage

223

Abstract

Previous articles by Frank and Martini (see 22nd Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN ´97, Minneapolis, 1997 and 23rd Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN´98, Boston, 1998) on the concept of ROBIN (Regulation Of Bandwidth in Intra-Networks) gave a motivation for and presented first results of our approach to regulate the sending bandwidth of data flows in heterogeneous campus networks by determining bottlenecks and possible rate limitations with a global knowledge of the network state based on the end-to-end operation of the mechanism. This paper presents the latest results of our performance study of the ROBIN approach with a focus on the scalability and the concept of data flow aggregation within the bandwidth regulation. The QoS properties of ROBIN together with the flow aggregation for the local domain show a close relation to the ideas of the differentiated services activities for QoS support in the Internet, which is also discussed in this paper

Keywords

Internet; delays; intranets; local area networks; performance evaluation; quality of service; Internet; QoS properties; QoS support; ROBIN; TCP; campus LAN; data flow aggregation; differentiated services activities; end-to-end bandwidth regulation; file delay; flow scalability; global knowledge; heterogeneous campus networks; local domain; network state; performance study; rate limitations; regulation of bandwidth in intra-networks; Bandwidth; Decision support systems; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1999. LCN '99. Conference on

Conference_Location

Lowell, MA

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0309-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1999.802023

Filename

802023