Comparative study of congestion notification techniques for hop-by-hop-based flow control in data centre Ethernet.

Data centre Ethernet (DCE) is a budding research area that has received considerable attention from the ICT sector. The traditional DCEs are considered unreliable despite being widely used in modern day data centres. In Ethernet intermediate layer 2 switching devices, the outgoing traffic is faster than the incoming traffic and therefore results in packet drops. Ethernet reliability is provided by...