IEICE Trans - Tentative Accommodating and Congestion Confirming Strategy--A Novel Admission Control Strategy for Packet Switching Networks--

Tentative Accommodating and Congestion Confirming Strategy--A Novel Admission Control Strategy for Packet Switching Networks--

Kenta YASUKAWA
Ken-ichi BABA
Katsunori YAMAOKA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E89-B No.2 pp.373-382
Publication Date: 2006/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.2.373
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multimedia QoS Evaluation and Management Technologies)
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Keyword:
multimedia QoS management, admission control, signaling, diffserv, drop precedence, batch-arrival queueing system,

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Summary:
Admission control is becoming an essential technique for IP networks to provide full-fledged multimedia streaming services. Although signaling-based schemes are utilized to achieve this, these are difficult to deploy and can hardly achieve strict admission control taking the properties of packet arrival into consideration. In this paper, we propose a novel admission control strategy called the Tentative Accommodating and Congestion Confirming Strategy (TACCS). The main idea is to accommodate incoming flows tentatively and confirm congestion after a certain period. Since tentative accommodating enables us to generate the same situation as where incoming flows have been accommodated, TACCS makes it possible to control admission considering the properties of packet arrival after they have been accommodated, without collecting resource information in advance. From the results of mathematical analysis, we confirmed that TACCS enabled a domain to control admission without a centralized management agent and we provided guidelines for configuring parameters of TACCS.