Computer Networking Lecture Notes

2014 October 13 • Network Congestion Control


Outline

The Territory

Network Resources

Resource Management

Network Resources

Congestion

More Congestion

Congestion Pictured

Controlling Congestion

Network Provisioning

Congestion Costs

Example

Evaluation

An Analogy

Admission Control

Describing Traffic

Admission Decisions

Deciding Admissions

Example

Congestion Awareness

Recovering From Mistakes

Traffic Throttling

Recognizing Congestion

Congestion Signaling

Choke Packets

Sender Choice

Aiding and Abeting

ECN Example

ecn in action

Long Fast Networks

Network Action

Backpressure Example

The Last Resort

  • What do you do with more stuff than you can handle?

overflowing wastebasket

Load Shedding

Dropping Knowledge

Sender Assistance

Definitive Signaling

Random Early Detection

RED Illustrated

Summary

References

Credits


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