TCP congestion control in input-queued crossbar switch
Hongyun Zheng, Yongxiang Zhao, Changjia Chen · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2005
In this paper, we consider congestion control in input queued crossbar switch environment where each input port with finite buffer space while TCP protocol is employed for end-to-end congestion control. We find that it is impossible to achieve efficiency and fairness among TCP flows at the same time only by queue management. Then we propose a scheme of hFS&rEDF, which combine heuristic fair switch arbitration (hFS) and queue management policy of early drop front randomly (rEDF). In our proposed scheme, switch arbitration strategy of hFS unevenly allows input ports to transfer packets to output ports while packets at head of any other input ports involved in conflicts have to be dropped by the policy of rEDF with a probability. Simulation results prove that our proposed scheme can achieve better tradeoff between throughput and fairness.