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Most prior work on congestion in datagram systems focuses on buffer management. We find it illuminating to consider the case of a packet switch with infinite storage. Such a packet switch can never run out of buffers. It can, however, still become congested. The meaning of congestion in an infinite-storage system is explored. We demonstrate the unexpected result that a datagram network with infinite storage, first-in, first-out queueing, at least two packet switches, and a finite packet lifetime will, under overload, drop all packets. By attacking the problem of congestion for the infinite-storage case, we discover new solutions applicable to switches with finite storage.
 
Most prior work on congestion in datagram systems focuses on buffer management. We find it illuminating to consider the case of a packet switch with infinite storage. Such a packet switch can never run out of buffers. It can, however, still become congested. The meaning of congestion in an infinite-storage system is explored. We demonstrate the unexpected result that a datagram network with infinite storage, first-in, first-out queueing, at least two packet switches, and a finite packet lifetime will, under overload, drop all packets. By attacking the problem of congestion for the infinite-storage case, we discover new solutions applicable to switches with finite storage.
 
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DOIS: 10.17487/rfc0970 10.1109/tcom.1987.1096782

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Abstract

Most prior work on congestion in datagram systems focuses on buffer management. We find it illuminating to consider the case of a packet switch with infinite storage. Such a packet switch can never run out of buffers. It can, however, still become congested. The meaning of congestion in an infinite-storage system is explored. We demonstrate the unexpected result that a datagram network with infinite storage, first-in, first-out queueing, at least two packet switches, and a finite packet lifetime will, under overload, drop all packets. By attacking the problem of congestion for the infinite-storage case, we discover new solutions applicable to switches with finite storage.


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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcom.1987.1096782
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc970,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1096782,
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc970.txt,
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/tcom/tcom35.html#Nagle87,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOM.1987.1096782,
https://rfcs.web.fc2.com/rfc970.html,
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc970,
http://art.tools.ietf.org/html/rfc970,
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOM.1987.1096782,
https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2139150553


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