ResearchIndex

type:

misc

pages:

362--373

year:

1998

institution:

Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

volume:

6

month:

aug

number:

4

journal:

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

abstract:

This paper presents the {"}Allocated Capacity{"} framework for providing different levels of best-effort service in times of network congestion. The {"}Allocated Capacity{"} framework - extensions to the Internet protocols and algorithms - can allocate bandwidth to different users in a controlled and predictable way during network congestion. The framework sup ports two complimentary ways of controlling the bandwidth allocation: sender-based and receiver-based. In today's heterogeneous and commercial Internet, the framework can serve as a basis for charging for usage, an more efficiently utilizing the network resources.

annote:

This paper presents the {"}allocated-capacity{"} framework for providing different levels of best-effort service in times of congestion. The basic idea is that all packets that enter the network are tagged as either {"}in{"} or {"}out{"}, and routers then drop {"}out{"} packets with a higher probability than {"}in{"} packets.