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Subject: [tcp-ip] New Technical Report on Congestion Available (DEC-TR-724)
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Original-subject: New Technical Report on Congestion Available (DEC-TR-724)
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The  following  DEC  technical  report  is  now  available   for   external
distribution.

DEC-TR-724: Myths About Congestion Management in High-Speed Networks
            10 pages.

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The abstract of the report is as follows:


                                DEC-TR-724
         Myths About Congestion Management in High-Speed Networks
                                by Raj Jain

Weaknesses in several recently proposed ideas about congestion control  and
avoidance  in high-speed networks are identified.  Both sides of the debate
concerning prior-reservation of resources versus walk-in service, open-loop
control  versus  feedback  control, rate control versus window control, and
router-based  control  versus  source-based  control  are  presented.   The
circumstances  under  which  backpressure  is  useful  or  not  useful  are
discussed, and it  is  argued  that  a  single  congestion  scheme  is  not
sufficient,  but  that  a  combination  of  several schemes is required for
complete congestion management in a network.