Title
Enhanced ethernet congestion management scheme for multicast traffic.
Abstract
The Quantized Congestion Notification QCN is a Layer 2 congestion control scheme for Carrier Ethernet data center networks. The QCN has been standardised as an IEEE 802.1Qau Ethernet Congestion Notification standard. This paper report a results of a QCN study with multicast traffic and proposes an enhancement to the QCN. In fact, in order to be able to scale up, the feedback implosion problem has to be solved. Therefore, we resorted to the representative technique, which uses a selected congestion point i.e. the overloaded queue in a switch, to provide timely and accurate feedback on behalf of the congested switches in the path of multicast traffic. This paper evaluates the rate variation, the feedback overhead, the loss rate, the stability, the fairness and the scalability performance of the standard QCN with multicast traffic and the enhanced QCN for multicast traffic. This paper also compares their performance criteria. The evaluation results show that the enhanced proposition of the QCN for multicast traffic gives better results than the standard QCN with multicast traffic. Indeed, the feedback implosion problem is settled by decreasing remarkably the feedback rate. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1002/ett.3097
Trans. Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
Field
DocType
Volume
Source-specific multicast,Carrier Ethernet,Queue,Computer network,Ethernet,Network congestion,Engineering,Multicast,Data center,Scalability
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2161-3915
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hela Mliki182.22
Lamia Chaari Fourati27824.90
Lotfi Kamoun318632.12
Bernard Cousin422340.68