A Simulation Study of Congestion Control Performance in Packet-Switched Networks
07 January 1987
A reasonable congestion control strategy in packet-switched networks consists of throttling the arrival rate of messages when a certain congestion onset threshold in the transmit buffer is exceeded. A typical buffer may serve traffic between many source-destination pairs (virtual circuits), and messages arriving at the buffer may have different access priorities, i.e., may receive differential treatment when the buffer is congested.