Fairness in DQDB revisited: a new solution

The main contribution of this work is to a new way of looking at fairness in a DQDB system. Our scheme is very simple and efficient to implement and compares favorably with the leading rate-controlled schemes proposed in the literature. In addition, simulation results show that in the presence of non-uniform loads, such as a file server being brought up, our scheme converges rapidly to a fair steady state.<
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