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The control of congestion in packet switching networks

Published:01 January 1971Publication History

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Any communication network has a limit to the traffic it can carry. If there is more than a certain traffic demand, some of the traffic must be rejected. Both the nature of the limitation and the reaction of the network to excess demand depend on the design of the network. The network in a condition where it must reject traffic is called 'congested'.

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  1. 1.The ARPA network is described in several papers in the Spring Joint Computer Conference 1970, including, 'Computer network development to achieve resource sharing' by L G Roberts and B D Wessler which is at page 543 of the proceedings.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. 2.The NPL experimental network is described in papers given at the ACM Symposium held at Pine Mountain Georgia 1969 including 'A model for the local area of a data communication network - objectives and hardware organisation' by R A Scantlebury. Google ScholarGoogle ScholarDigital LibraryDigital Library

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        Proceedings of the ACM second symposium on Problems in the optimizations of data communications systems
        January 1971
        198 pages
        ISBN:9781450373876
        DOI:10.1145/800281

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