We outline two alternate approaches to predicting the onset of congestion in a packet switching satellite, and argue that predictive, rather than reactive, flow control is necessary for the efficient operation of such a system. The first method discussed is based on standard, statistical techniques which are used to periodically calculate a probability of near-term congestion based on arrival rate statistics. If this probability exceeds a present threshold, the satellite would transmit a rate-reduction signal to all active ground stations. The second method discussed would utilize a neural network to periodically predict the occurrence of buffer overflow based on input data which would include, in addition to arrival rates, the distributions of packet lengths, source addresses, and destination addresses.


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    Title :

    Predictive onboard flow control for packet switching satellites


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Communications Satellite Systems Conference ; 1992 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Publication date :

    1992-03-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English