Performance and buffering requirements of Internet protocols over ATM ABR and UBR services

1 June 1998

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Communications Magazine

Vol. 36 (6) , 152-157
https://doi.org/10.1109/35.685383

Abstract

ATM networks are quickly being adopted as backbones over various parts of the Internet. This article studies the dynamics and performance of the TCP/IP protocol over the ABR and UBR services of ATM networks. Specifically the buffering requirements in the ATM switches as well as the ATM edge devices. It is shown that with a good switch algorithm, ABR pushes congestion to the edges of the ATM network while UBR leaves it inside the ATM portion. As a result, the switch ABR buffer requirement for zero-packet-loss high-throughput TCP transmission is a sublinear function of the number of TCP connections

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