Abstract
The Differentiated Services Architecture is a simple, but novel, approach for providing service differentiation in an IP network. However, there are various issues to be addressed before any sophisticated end-to-end services can be offered. This work proposes an Aggregate Flow Control (AFC) technique with a Diffserv traffic conditioner to improve the bandwidth and delay assurance of differentiated services. A prototype has been developed to study the end-to-end behavior of customer aggregates. In particular, this new approach improves performance in the following manner: (1) fairness issues among aggregated customer traffic with different number of micro-flows in an aggregate, interaction of non-responsive traffic (UDP) and responsive traffic (TCP), and the effect of different packet sizes in aggregates; (2) improved transactions per second for short TCP flows; and (3) reduced inter-packet delay variation for streaming UDP traffic. Experiments are also performed in a topology with multiple congestion points to show an improved treatment of conformant aggregates, and the ability of AFC to handle multiple aggregates and differing target rates.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1340-1349 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM |
Volume | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2001 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Aggregate Flow Control
- Congestion management
- Diffserv
- TCP-friendly
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering