Traffic Management for the Available Bit Rate (ABR) Service in ...

LIST OF FIGURES
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1.1 ATM ABR and VBR tra c sharing a link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 ABR Tra c Management Model: Source, Switch, Destination and Resource
Management Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 Initial Binary Feedback Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3 Initial Explicit Rate Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.4 Forward and Backward Resource Management Cells (FRMs and BRMs) 19
2.5 Resource Management (RM) Cell Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.6 Frequency of forward RM cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.7 Scheduling of forward RM, backward RM, and data cells. . . . . . . . 24
2.8 Source Rule6doesnot trigger if BRM ow is maintained . . . . . . . 28
3.1 Throughput versus delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.2 Operating point between the \knee" and the \cli " . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.3 Sample con guration for max-min fairness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3.4 Con guration after removing VC 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3.5 Transient vs Steady State Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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