Publication Details
Title: Link-sharing and Resource Management Models for Packet Networks
Author: S. Floyd and V. Jacobson
Group: Networking
Date: August 1995
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/linksharing95.pdf
Overview:
This paper discusses the use of link-sharing mechanisms in packet networks and presents algorithms for hierarchical link-sharing. Hierarchical link-sharing allows multiple agencies, protocol families, or traffic types to share the bandwidth on a link in a controlled fashion. Link-sharing and real-time services both require resource management mechanisms at the gateway. Rather than requiring a gateway to implement separate mechanisms for link-sharing and real-time services, the approach in this paper is to view link-sharing and real-time service requirements as simultaneous, and in some respect complementary, constraints at a gateway that can be implemented with a unified set of mechanisms. While it is not possible to completely predict the requirements that might evolve in the Internet over the next decade, we argue that controlled link-sharing is an essential component that can provide gateways with the flexibility to accommodate emerging applications and network protocols.
Bibliographic Information:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 365-386
Bibliographic Reference:
S. Floyd and V. Jacobson. Link-sharing and Resource Management Models for Packet Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 365-386, August 1995
Author: S. Floyd and V. Jacobson
Group: Networking
Date: August 1995
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/linksharing95.pdf
Overview:
This paper discusses the use of link-sharing mechanisms in packet networks and presents algorithms for hierarchical link-sharing. Hierarchical link-sharing allows multiple agencies, protocol families, or traffic types to share the bandwidth on a link in a controlled fashion. Link-sharing and real-time services both require resource management mechanisms at the gateway. Rather than requiring a gateway to implement separate mechanisms for link-sharing and real-time services, the approach in this paper is to view link-sharing and real-time service requirements as simultaneous, and in some respect complementary, constraints at a gateway that can be implemented with a unified set of mechanisms. While it is not possible to completely predict the requirements that might evolve in the Internet over the next decade, we argue that controlled link-sharing is an essential component that can provide gateways with the flexibility to accommodate emerging applications and network protocols.
Bibliographic Information:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 365-386
Bibliographic Reference:
S. Floyd and V. Jacobson. Link-sharing and Resource Management Models for Packet Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 365-386, August 1995