Achieving Max-Min Fairness by Decentralization for the ABR Traffic Control in ATM Networks

摘要

The available bit rate (ABR) is an ATM ser- vice category that provides an economical support of connec- tions having vague requirements. An ABR Session may specify its peak cell rate (PCR) and minimum cell rate (MCR), and avail- able bandwidth is allocated to competing session based on the max-min policy. In this paper, we investigate the ABR traffic control from a different point of view: Based on the decentral- ized bandwidth allocation model studied in [9], we prove that the max-min rate vector is the equilibrium of a certain system of noncooperative optimizations.