1998/09/23 by Raj Jain, Jain, Raj, Shiv Kalyanaraman +3
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Optical Network Technologies #C.2.1 #FOS: Computer and information sciences #IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security #Network Traffic and Congestion Control #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809058
arxiv created 1998/09/23 · openalex publication_date 1998/09/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The OSU scheme is a rate-based congestion avoidance scheme for ATM networks using explicit rate indication. This work was one of the first attempts to define explicit rate switch mechanisms and the Resource Management (RM) cell format in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The key features of the scheme include explicit rate feedback, congestion avoidance, fair operation while maintaining high utilization, use of input rate as a congestion metric, O(1) complexity. This paper presents an overview of the scheme, presents those features of the scheme that have now become common features of other switch algorithms and discusses three extensions of the scheme.