Improving Explicit Congestion Notification with the Mark-Front Strategy

Delivering congestion signals is essential to the performance of networks. Current TCP/IP networks use packet losses to signal congestion. Packet losses not only reduces TCP performance, but also adds large delay. Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) delivers a faster indication of congestion and has better performance. How ever, current ECN implementations mark the packet from the tail of the queue. In this paper, we propose the mark-front strategy to send an even faster congest ion signal. We show that mark-front strategy reduces buffer size requirement, improves link efficiency and provides better fairness among users. Simulation results that verify our analysi s are also presented.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2001
• Where: Computer Networks
• Authors: Chunlei Liu, Raj Jain,
• Keywords: Buffer Size Requirement, Congestion Control, ECN Implementations Mark, Explicit Congestion Notification, Mark-front Strategy