IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Best Practice
Pages: 31
Abstract: This memo presents recommendations to the Internet community concerning measures to improve and preserve Internet performance. It presents a strong recommendation for testing, standardization, and widespread deployment of active queue management (AQM) in network devices to improve the performance of today's Internet. It also urges a concerted effort of research, measurement, and ultimate deployment of AQM mechanisms to protect the Internet from flows that are not sufficiently responsive to congestion notification. Based on 15 years of experience and new research, this document replaces the recommendations of RFC 2309.
Publication Date: 2015-07-01
Status Note: Best Current Practice
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7567
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7567
Author(s): Fred Baker
Gorry Fairhurst

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Normative Reference(s)

IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3168 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4301 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 4774 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5405 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 5681 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6040 [Active*]
RFC6679 — RFC6679 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 7141 [Active*]

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IETF.draft-ietf-conex-abstract-mech-13 — CONEX EXTERNAL
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McKenney, PE. and G. Varghese, "Stochastic Fairness Queuing", 1990, < http://www2.rdrop.com/~paulmck/scalability/paper/ sfq.2002.06.04.pdf >. EXTERNAL
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Floyd, S. and V. Jacobsen, "The Synchronization of Periodic Routing Messages", 1994, < http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf >. EXTERNAL
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IETF, "Active Queue Management and Packet Scheduling (aqm) WG", < http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/aqm/charter/ >. EXTERNAL
Nichols, K. and V. Jacobson, "Controlling Queue Delay", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55, Issue 7, pp. 42-50, July 2012. EXTERNAL
Willinger, W., Taqqu, M., Sherman, R., Wilson, D., and V. Jacobson, "Self-Similarity Through High-Variability: Statistical Analysis of Ethernet LAN Traffic at the Source Level", SIGCOMM Symposium proceedings on Communications architectures and protocols, August 1995. EXTERNAL
Shreedhar, M. and G. Varghese, "Efficient Fair Queueing Using Deficit Round Robin", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 1996. EXTERNAL
Floyd, S. and V. Jacobsen, "On Traffic Phase Effects in Packet-Switched Gateways", 1992, < http://www.icir.org/floyd/papers/phase.pdf >. EXTERNAL
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IETF RFC 768 [Active*]
IETF RFC 791 [Active*]
IETF RFC 793 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 896 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 970 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1122 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1633 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2309 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2460 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2474 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2475 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2914 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4340 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4960 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 5348 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5559 [Active*]
RFC6057 — RFC6057 EXTERNAL
RFC6789 — RFC6789 EXTERNAL
RFC6817 — RFC6817 EXTERNAL
RFC7414 — RFC7414 EXTERNAL

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Referenced By

IETF RFC 8085 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8931 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9438 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9522 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9599 [Active*]