期刊名称:International Journal of Computer Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN:2229-4333
电子版ISSN:0976-8491
出版年度:2012
卷号:3
期号:4
页码:152-155
语种:English
出版社:Ayushmaan Technologies
摘要:A packet buffer for the protocol processor is a large memory space that holds incoming data packets for an application. Data packets for each application are stored in the form of FIFO queues in the packet buffer. Packets are dropped when the buffer is full. An efficient buffer management algorithm is required to manage the buffer space among the different FIFO queues and to avoid heavy packet loss.This paper proposes a new buffer management algorithm, Dynamic Algorithm with Different Thresholds (DADT) to improve the packet loss ratio. This algorithm takes advantage of the different packet sizes for each application and proportionally allocates buffer space for each queue. The performance of the DADT algorithm is dependent upon the packet size distribution in a network traffic load.