Performance Evaluation of PCN-Based Admission Control

Abstract

Pre-congestion notification (PCN) marks packets when the PCN traffic rate exceeds an admissible link rate and this marking information is used as feedback from the network to take admission decisions for new flows. This idea is currently under standardization in the IETF. Different marking algorithms are discussed and various admission control algorithms are proposed that decide based on the packet markings whether further flows should be accepted or blocked. In this paper, we propose a two-layer architecture that makes the coexistence of various algorithms explicit. We propose novel control algorithms, investigate their behavior under various conditions, and compare them with existing approaches.