An Enhanced Fairness Algorithm for the IEEE 802.17 Resilient Packet Ring

Tae-Joon KIM

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.5    pp.2182-2184
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.5.2182
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
Resilient Packet Ring (RPR),  fairness control,  Metropolitan Area Network (MAN),  

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Summary: 
The fairness algorithm of the Resilient Packet Ring IEEE 802.17 standard suffers from throughput degradation under an unbalanced overload. This letter proposes an enhanced fairness algorithm using a valuable piece of information, represented by the transit buffer length, about congestion alleviation on a congested node, under which the throughput degradation can be completely improved.