Study of traffic control and congestion control in broadband ISDN

Abstract

In Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN), the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network architecture has been adopted as the switching and multiplexing scheme. One of the important ATM architectural issues is trafBc and congestion control. Many schemes, algorithms and theories have been studied for network flow control, congestion control, and trafBc control in order to find suitable techniques to manage network trafBc effectively to meet the quality of service requirement for network users. Among B-ISDN terminals in a Customer Premises Network (CPN) domain, a new flow control concept refered to as Generic Row Control (GFC), has been adopted and its protocol standardization is under study. The main purpose of GFC is to control and to schedule the local trafBc flow at the Broadband '.{(<<(.><-.'-j' 'V.iinAv.^' < Q<->4 '