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Rule 6 unnecessarily and degrade per<strong>for</strong>mance. Hence, <strong>the</strong> Forum decided to<br />

use FRTT parameter <strong>in</strong>stead of RTT.<br />

Note that it is possible to disable source Rule 6, by sett<strong>in</strong>g CDF to zero.<br />

Source Rule 7: When send<strong>in</strong>g an FRM, <strong>the</strong> sources should <strong>in</strong>dicate <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

current ACR <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> CCR eld of <strong>the</strong> RM cells.<br />

Source Rules 8 and 9: Source Rule 8 and 9 describe how <strong>the</strong> source should re-<br />

act to network feedback. The feedback consists of explicit rate (ER), congestion<br />

<strong>in</strong>dication bit (CI), and no-<strong>in</strong>crease bit (NI). Normally, a source could simply<br />

change its ACR to <strong>the</strong> new ER value� but this could cause a few problems as<br />

discussed next.<br />

First, if <strong>the</strong> new ER is very high compared to current ACR, switch<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong><br />

new ER will cause sudden queues <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> network. There<strong>for</strong>e, <strong>the</strong> amount of<br />

<strong>in</strong>crease is limited. The rate <strong>in</strong>crease factor (RIF) parameter determ<strong>in</strong>es <strong>the</strong><br />

maximum allowed <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> any one step. The source cannot <strong>in</strong>crease its ACR<br />

by more than RIF PCR.<br />

Second, if <strong>the</strong>re are any EFCI switches <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> path, <strong>the</strong>y do not change <strong>the</strong> ER<br />

eld. Instead, <strong>the</strong>y set EFCI bits <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> cell headers. The dest<strong>in</strong>ation monitors<br />

<strong>the</strong>se bits and returns <strong>the</strong> last seen EFCI bit <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> CI eld of a BRM. A CI of 1<br />

means that <strong>the</strong> network is congested and that <strong>the</strong> source should reduce its rate.<br />

The decrease is determ<strong>in</strong>ed by rate decrease factor (RDF) parameter. Unlike<br />

<strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>crease, which is additive, <strong>the</strong> decrease is multiplicative <strong>in</strong><strong>the</strong> sense that<br />

ACR ACR(1 ; RDF)<br />

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