DataCommunicationandNetworks.pptVIP

Data Communication and Networks Lecture 10 Network Congestion: Causes, Effects, Controls November 17, 2005 What Is Congestion? Congestion occurs when the number of packets being transmitted through the network approaches the packet handling capacity of the network Congestion control aims to keep number of packets below level at which performance falls off dramatically Data network is a network of queues Generally 80% utilization is critical Finite queues mean data may be lost A top-10 problem! Queues at a Node Effects of Congestion Packets arriving are stored at input buffers Routing de