Integrated QoS Provision and Congestion Management for Interconnection Networks

Abstract. Both QoS support and congestion management techniques have become essential for achieving good performance in current high-speed interconnection networks. However, traditional techniques pro-posed for both issues require too many resources for being implemented. In this paper we propose a new switch architecture that efficiently uses the same resources to offer both congestion management and QoS provi-sion. It is as effective as previous proposals, but much more cost-effective.