Questions and Answers: Resouce Allocation and Congestion Control

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1) What is resource allocation?

In networking protocols layers a lot of data is transferred between different processes across a heterogeneous network. Also lot of resources are shared like bandwidth of links or the routers in buffers, where there can be many packets which are queued for transmitting from different processes. It can happen that too many packets are on same link and the queue overflows where packets can be lost or even they need to be dropped. Thus to avoid this congestion resource allocation is done.

2) What is congestion control?

When too many packets are present on a link or if the load on network is more than its capacity then congestion occurs. Congestion control is controlling the traffic on networks to avoid collapse in links and nodes or overload conditions and taking measures such as reducing rate of packets.

3) Compare Congestion Control and Flow control.

Congestion control involves reduced sending of packet data because of avoiding overflow and lack of resources.

Flow control involves keeping fast sender to protect over running a slow receiver.

Congestion control controls data flow when actual congestion occurs which control data entering a network.

Flow control controls speed of transmission so that receiver is able to handle data which is sent by sender.

Congestion control is more complicated than flow control.

4) What is a flow?

A flow is a sequence of packets which are sent from a source or from a destination which follows the same route through a network. It is mainly used in resource allocation. Also flow can have different granularities. For example: Host to host flow or process to process flow.

5) A.) Describe the difference between best effort and QO’S.

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... resources they require. Thus these reservations are expressed in terms of rate based control.

Best effort uses feedback based systems as it does not allow users to reserve network capacity. Hence QOS implies route based service control model.

7) Compare RED and WRED

In weighted random early detection that is WRED for different priorities different probabilities are present. Also more than 2 drop probability curve can be generalized. DSCP field is mostly used to pick one of the curves which can help in providing different classes of service. A single queue can have many different queue thresholds. It is mostly suited for congestion avoidance.

Random early detection is a queuing discipline for scheduling of networks. The average queue size is seen and packets are dropped depending on statistical probability.

RED does not contain QOS whereas WRED provide QOS.

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