ATM Traffic Management

• ATM Networks: Overview
• Why Worry About Congestion?
• Economic Reasons
• One Scheme or Many?
• Classes of Service
• Traffic Management Functions
• Initial Binary Rate-based Scheme
• The Explicit Rate Scheme
• ERICA Switch Algorithm
• Segment-by-Segment Control
• Multicast
• Outstanding Issues
• Congestion: Summary
• Other Backup Topics:
  • ERICA+: Full Utilization
  • Fair Queueing
  • Selective Cell Discarding
  • Early Packet Discard
  • Cell Delay Variation
  • Instantaneous CDV
  • Generic Flow Control (GFC)
  • Fast Resource Management
  • ERICA Features
  • ERICA+: Switch Algorithm
  • Control Mechanisms
  • Rate Representation
  • OSU Congestion Principles
  • Congestion Avoidance
  • Why Worry About Transients?
  • Burst Performance
  • Legacy LANs vs ATM

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