Active Queue Management: A Survey

Since its formal introduction to IP networks in 1993 as a viable complementary approach for congestion control, there has been a steady stream of research output with respect to Active Queue Management (AQM). This survey attempts to travel the trajectory of AQM research from 1993 with the first algo...

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Published inIEEE Communications surveys and tutorials Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 1425 - 1476
Main Author Adams, Richelle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2013
Subjects
Active Queue Management
AQM
congestion control
Context
Delay
differentiated services
DiffServ
Diffserv networks
Optimization
Proposals
QoS
Quality of service
Wireless communication
wireless networks
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ISSN2373-745X
DOI10.1109/SURV.2012.082212.00018

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Summary:Since its formal introduction to IP networks in 1993 as a viable complementary approach for congestion control, there has been a steady stream of research output with respect to Active Queue Management (AQM). This survey attempts to travel the trajectory of AQM research from 1993 with the first algorithm, Random Early Detection (RED), to current work in 2011. In this survey we discuss the general attributes of AQM schemes, and the design approaches taken such as heuristic, control-theoretic and deterministic optimization. Of interest is the role of AQM in QoS provisioning particularly in the DiffServ context, as well as the role of AQM in the wireless domain. For each section, example algorithms from the research literature are presented.
ISSN:2373-745X
DOI:10.1109/SURV.2012.082212.00018