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2006 Technical Reports

RQM: A new rate-based active queue management algorithm

Jeff Edmonds, Suprakash Datta, Patrick Dymond and Kashif Ali

Technical Report CSE-2006-09

York University

September 1, 2006

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a new active queue management algorithm RQM based on the rates of traffic passing through a router instead of the buffer occupancy inside a router. Our algorithm uses a novel method of estimating the number of active sessions without explicitly maintaining or using per-session states at the routers. We prove that our algorithm results in fair allocations of bandwidth to competing sessions, under some simplifying assumptions. Using simulations, we show that our algorithm is superior to the well-known RED and REM algorithms in many scenarios. Our algorithm performs particularly well when the number of active sessions is very high.

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