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Re: EF% vs. BCN



 
Raj:

Interesting traffic pattern....
If I understand your question, the EF BW is reserved and leaked into the Ring
It appears as reserved time slots; hence a periodic function?

The question is what is the congestion threshold and when to send congestion notification. The time scale for congestion detection is important. If buffers are used, then it is some buffer threshold.  Otherwise, is congestion
detected at cell level, burst level, call level, or days etc.

There is one trade-off for fairness: stability versus maximize BW utilization.
-If you response too fast going into congestion, (reacting to small burst), you are susceptible to instability and you  BW efficiency may be reduced.
-If you response too slow, you will not be fair, as some node may get starved.
-If you response too fast in existing, you may not be fair again, and you oscillate.
-If you response too slow in existing, you loose efficiency.

Regards,

Harry
 
 

Khaled Amer wrote:

Raj, Not sure I understand how you reached to the conclusion of 'the traffic at any node would be a periodic function'. Can you shed some light on this? Khaled Amer
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject: EF% vs. BCN
I would like to findout if anyone has giventhought to Explicit Forward (EF) traffic versus BCN mechanismsused on buffer insertion rings.Assume that x% of the BW is provisioned for EF.As EF traffic into the ring it will given highest priorityforwarding and hence to culminate in all EF packets arriving together. The BW consumed by EF traffic overtime can become a time function. Example x(t) = sine or square wave function of t with an amplitudeof x.As a consequence available BW for the rest of the traffic at any node can become a periodic function. There could be interplaybetween this perdiodicity and the periodicity of the congestion notification messages.Has anyone simulated this or have given thought tothis?
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