Stability analysis of QCN
Mohammad Hossein Alizadeh, Abdul Kabbani, Berk Atikoglu, Balaji Prabhakar · 2011
Data Center Networks have recently caused much excitement in the industry and in the research community. They represent the convergence of networking, storage, computing and virtualization. This paper is concerned with the Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) algorithm, developed for Layer 2 congestion management. QCN has recently been standardized as the IEEE 802.1Qau Ethernet Congestion Notification standard.