Congestion control mechanisms and the best effort service model.

In the last few years there has been considerable research toward extending the Internet architecture to provide quality of service guarantees for the emerging real-time multimedia applications. QoS provision is a rather controversial endeavour. At one end of the spectrum there were proposals for re...

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Published in:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 15, 3 (2001).
Main Author:	Gevros, P.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	FIFO queues. Internet architecture. Internet resource sharing. QoS guarantees. QoS provision. Best effort service model. Best effort service network. Congestion control mechanisms. Cooperative resource sharing. Fairness guarantee. Overprovisioned best effort network. Quality of service guarantees. Queue management. Real-time multimedia applications. Routers. Scalability problems.