An approach to controlling congestion in ATM networks
A.E. Eckberg, D.T. Luan, David M. Lucantoni · International Journal of Digital & Analog Communication Systems · 1990
Abstract Determining approaches to congestion and flow control, especially real‐time components in an overall strategy, is recognized as one of the fundamental challenges facing broadband ‘packet‐based’ information transport, as, for instance, in the case of BISDN/ATM, In this paper we summarize basic issues underlying this subject, and describe a particular approach to achieving a multilayer broadband congestion, flow and error‐control architecture, based on a ‘core’ congestion control strategy that we term bandwidth management. The modular and layered nature of this control architecture is described, and shown to lend itself to a structured approach to characterizing the control architecture performance.