Title
A comprehensive survey on Carrier Ethernet Congestion Management mechanism.
Abstract
In the literature, congestion control schemes have been broadly studied. Nevertheless, this subject needs to be reviewed in the context of Carrier Ethernet. Congestion happens when the capacity cannot cover the resource demands. Nowadays, users are witnessing the networks saturation because of the expanding demands for bandwidth. The addressed issue is not only how to avoid congestion but also how to use all available capacity without overuse it or underuse it. To deal with congestion, link level algorithms drop or mark packets with increasing probability as buffer congestion increases. The most common solution is based on the transport layer algorithms to adjust the resources transmission rate by using these dropped or marked packets. Carrier Ethernet defined by layer two uses new proposals specified by the 802.1Qau standards committee in order to handle congestion problems. This paper surveys and studies different properties of Carrier Ethernet congestion control schemes. This paper also draws a parallel between the different schemes and point out the advantage and disadvantage of each one. Then, this paper presents a taxonomy of the Carrier Ethernet congestion control mechanism and correlate it with existing taxonomies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.jnca.2014.09.003
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Carrier Ethernet,Congestion control,Ethernet Congestion Management schemes,IEEE 802.1Qau standard
Journal
47
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
C
1084-8045
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
43
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hela Mliki182.22
Lamia Chaari210312.16
Lotfi Kamoun318632.12