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Abstract | ||
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Congestion management in multistage interconnection networks is a serious problem, which is not solved completely. In order to avoid the degradation of network performance when congestion appears, several congestion management mechanisms have been proposed. Most of these mechanisms are based on explicit congestion notification. For this purpose, switches detect congestion and depending on the applied strategy, packets are marked to warn the source hosts. In response, source hosts apply some corrective actions to adjust their packet injection rate. Although these proposals seem quite effective, they either exhibit some drawbacks or are partial solutions. Some of them introduce some penalties over the flows not responsible for congestion, whereas others can cope only with congestion situations that last for a short time. In this paper, we present an overview of the different strategies to detect and correct congestion in multistage interconnection networks, and propose a new mechanism referred to as Marking and Validation Congestion Management (MVCM), targeted to this kind of lossless networks, and based on a more refined packet marking strategy combined with a fair set of corrective actions, that makes the mechanism able to effectively manage congestion regardless of the congestion degree. Evaluation results show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed mechanism. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2012 | 10.1109/TC.2011.146 | Computers, IEEE Transactions |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
multistage interconnection networks,mvcm,corrective actions,explicit congestion notification,lossless networks,marking and validation congestion management,network performance degradation,packet injection rate,packet marking strategy,progressive congestion management mechanism,source hosts,validation techniques,interconnection networks,congestion management,message throttling.,throughput,degradation,bandwidth | Packet injection,Computer science,Network packet,Packet loss,Computer network,Real-time computing,Multistage interconnection networks,Flow control (data),Network congestion,Network traffic control,Explicit Congestion Notification | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
61 | 9 | 0018-9340 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.39 | 10 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joan-LLuis Ferrer | 1 | 1 | 0.39 |
| Elvira Baydal | 2 | 93 | 6.39 |
| Antonio Robles | 3 | 481 | 30.40 |
| Pedro Lopez | 4 | 387 | 27.39 |
| Jose Duato | 5 | 893 | 54.65 |