TRANSITION CHARACTERISTICS OF CONGESTION AVOIDANCE FLOW-CONTROL - CEFLAR IN ATM NETWORKS

CEFLAR is one way of realizing ATM-ABR with no cell loss. This paper s hows that the transition characteristics of CEFLAR(transition time to achieve fair share), important when addressing network fairness, stron gly depend on the acceleration-ratio coefficient, not the rate decreas e factor or the distance between source and congestion estimation node s. This paper also shows that the average throughput of a transmission line in transition degrades as the rate decrease factor decreases and as the distance between the source and congestion estimation nodes in creases.