Blue (queue management algorithm)

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Blue[1] is an Active Queue Management algorithm. Like Random early detection, it operates by selectively dropping or marking packets in a router's queue before it overflows; unlike RED, however, it requires little or no tuning on the part of the network administrator.

Operation of Blue

Stochastic Fair Blue

Stochastic Fair Blue (SFB)[2]

References

  1. ^ W. Feng, D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin. Blue: A New Class of Active Queue Management Algorithms. U. Michigan CSE-TR-387-99, April 1999.
  2. ^ Wu-Chang Feng, Dilip D. Kandlur, Debanjan Saha, Kang G. Shin. Stochastic Fair Blue: an algorithm for enforcing fairness. In Proc. INFOCOM'2001. 2001.
  • [1] Wu-chang Feng's page about Blue and SFB.
  • [2] An implementation of SFB for the Linux kernel.