A generic weight-proportional bandwidth sharing policy for ATM ABR service

A generic weight-proportional max-min (WPMM) policy has been proposed for t he ATM available bit rate (ABR) service. This policy generalizes the classi cal max-min policy by supporting the minimum cell rate (MCR) requirement, t he peak cell rate (PCR) constraint, and a generic weight for each connectio n. This paper presents a distributed ABR flow control algorithm for the the WPMM policy and gives a formal proof of the distributed algorithm's conver gence to the WPMM policy under any network configuration and any set of lin k distances. Simulation results on various network configurations demonstra te that the distributed algorithm has a very fast convergence property. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.