Improving fairness in a WRED-based DiffServ network: A fluid-flow approach

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 759-783

  Barbera, Mario ^a   Lombardo, Alfio ^a   Schembra, Giovanni ^a   Trecarichi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DiffServ architecture; Fairness; Fluid flow performance analysis; TCP; WRED

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ASSURED FORWARDING PER-HOP BEHAVIOR; AVERAGE BEHAVIOR; BOTTLENECK LINK; BUFFER MANAGEMENT; COLOR MARKERS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DIFFSERV ARCHITECTURE; DIFFSERV ARCHITECTURES; DIFFSERV NETWORKS; FAIR SHARING; FAIRNESS; FLUID FLOWING; FLUID-FLOW PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; HIGH-ACCURACY; MODEL AND SIMULATION; NETWORK CORE; NETWORK DESIGNERS; NETWORK RESOURCES; PARAMETER SETTINGS; SCALABLE APPROACH; SERVICE DIFFERENTIATIONS; SHORT TIME; TCP; TCP FLOWS; TRAFFIC AGGREGATES; TRAFFIC PROFILING; WRED;

ROUTERS;

EID: 50049107559     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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