Guaranteed frame rate a better service for TCP

Guaranteed frame rate, approved by the ATM Forum, is expected to become an important service category to efficiently support TCP/IP traffic in ATM networks. We first describe the GFR traffic contract in detail. We then present different types of switch implementations that have been proposed to supp...

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Pubblicato in:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 15, 1 (2001).
Autore principale:	Bonaventure, O.
Natura:	Articolo
Lingua:	English
Soggetti:	ATM Forum. ATM VC. ATM networks. GFR traffic contract. TCP/IP traffic. Active packet discard mechanism. Guaranteed frame rate traffic. Network environments. Performance analysis. Scheduler-based implementations. Simulations. Switch implementations.