Providing Fair Service Over the Internet : An Approach Based on Packet Marking

摘要

Congestion signaling is an essential issue for ensuring a high network performance. Explicit Congestion Notification, ECN has been proved to provide a faster indication of congestion and thus better the performance of a TCP/IP network. In this paper, we present a new scheme for ECN named Fair In-time Marking, FIM winch employs a mechanism that along with providing an indication of incipient congestion assures a fair service to all the connections. This is important as the client base of the Internet is rapidly increasing and the demand for a reasonably fair service is getting strong. We have shown tlirough simulations that FIM offers the best fairness without hampering efficiency compared with other proposed schemes for ECN.