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Figure 7.10 shows <strong>the</strong> e ect of UILI on <strong>the</strong> source rate of small bursts. The<br />

network feedback rst arrives when <strong>the</strong> source is idle, ask<strong>in</strong>g it to <strong>in</strong>crease its ACR.<br />

The source uses its ACR to almost send <strong>the</strong> full burst. The rst RM cell sent reduces<br />

its source rate back to ICR. The source rate goes back to zero when <strong>the</strong> source is<br />

idle. Now, <strong>the</strong> time-based and count-based proposals di er <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> way <strong>the</strong>y respond<br />

to subsequent network feedback.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> time-based proposal, <strong>the</strong> feedback brought by <strong>the</strong> next RM cell is ignored<br />

because of rule 5b. Now <strong>the</strong>re is no RM cell of <strong>the</strong> source <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> network and at least<br />

two bursts are sent at ICR be<strong>for</strong>e <strong>the</strong> next RM cell is sent which results <strong>in</strong> an ACR<br />

<strong>in</strong>crease. Note that <strong>the</strong> send<strong>in</strong>g of this second RM cell does not decrease <strong>the</strong> ACR<br />

fur<strong>the</strong>r because ACR is already at ICR. There<strong>for</strong>e, on <strong>the</strong> average one out of every<br />

three bursts is sent at a higher rate.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> count-based proposal, <strong>the</strong> rate-<strong>in</strong>crease feedbacks are always ignored be-<br />

cause <strong>the</strong> system is <strong>in</strong> region B (Figure 7.3). The ACR slowly reduces to ICR and<br />

<strong>the</strong>n rema<strong>in</strong>s at ICR. Over <strong>the</strong> long term, all short bursts are sent out at ICR only.<br />

This can be improved by us<strong>in</strong>g a leaky bucket or GCRA [32] type burst tolerance<br />

mechanism where small bursts can be sent at l<strong>in</strong>k rate irrespective of ACR or ICR.<br />

O<strong>the</strong>r alternatives <strong>in</strong>clude choos<strong>in</strong>g a small TDF or a larger ICR. An ICR of 10 Mbps<br />

allows LANE tra c (<strong>the</strong> source of small bursts) to go through at full speed. On <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r hand, s<strong>in</strong>ce <strong>the</strong> burst is very short, <strong>the</strong>re is not a signi cant time di erence <strong>in</strong><br />

transmitt<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> burst at ACR and transmitt<strong>in</strong>g it at ICR (assum<strong>in</strong>g ICR is not very<br />

small). In such a case, <strong>the</strong> emphasis <strong>the</strong>n shifts to support<strong>in</strong>g medium bursts and<br />

large bursts e ciently.<br />

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