The counter-based congestion avoidance scheme for ABR traffic in ATM networks

Congestion control plays an important role in the effective and stable operation of ATM networks. Many congestion control schemes for ABR traffic in ATM networks have been developed. However, conventional feedback schemes are very sensitive to network parameter settings and perform poorly when measured by throughput or queue length metrics. To solve these problems, a counter-based congestion avoidance scheme is proposed. The proposed scheme exhibits insensitivity to network parameter settings and has higher throughput and shorter queue length than previous schemes.