AuthorsF. Davik, A. Kvalbein and S. Gjessing
TitleImprovement of Resilient Packet Ring Fairness
Afilliation, Communication Systems
StatusPublished
Publication TypeProceedings, refereed
Year of Publication2005
Conference NameProceedings of the 48th annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2005), St. Lous, Missouri, USA, November 28-December 2
Date PublishedNovember
PublisherIEEE
Abstract

Resilient Packet Ring (RPR, IEEE std. 802.17- 2004) is a recent networking standard developed by the IEEE LAN/MAN working group. RPR is an insertion buffer, dual ring technology, utilizing a back pressure based fairness algorithm to distribute bandwidth when congestion occurs. In its attempt to control a set of nodes sending behavior over a congested link, the RPR fairness algorithm suffers from two severe performance deficiencies. The first concerns how the node closest to a congested link calculates a fair rate estimate, the second deficiency relates to the method used to distribute this fair rate estimate to nodes upstream from the congested node. In this paper, we analyze these deficiencies and propose improvements to resolve them.

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ISBN 0-7803-9414-3

Citation KeyDavik.2005.7