Configuring Congestion Management; Overview; Impacts And Countermeasures; Congestion Management Techniques - HP 5920 Configuration Manual

Configuring congestion management

Overview

Congestion occurs on a link or node when traffic size exceeds the processing capability of the link or
node. It is typical of a statistical multiplexing network and can be caused by link failures, insufficient
resources, and various other causes.

Impacts and countermeasures

Figure 13 shows two typical congestion scenarios.
Figure 13 Traffic congestion scenarios
Congestion brings the following negative results:
Increased delay and jitter during packet transmission
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• Decreased network throughput and resource use efficiency
Network resource (memory in particular) exhaustion and even system breakdown
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Congestion is unavoidable in switched networks and multi-user application environments. To improve the
service performance of your network, take measures to manage and control it.
The key to congestion management is defining a resource dispatching policy to prioritize packets for
forwarding when congestion occurs.

Congestion management techniques

Congestion management uses queuing and scheduling algorithms to classify and sort traffic leaving a
port.
Queue scheduling processes packets by their priorities, preferentially forwarding high-priority packets.
The switch supports Strict Priority (SP) queuing, Weighted Round Robin (WRR) queuing, Weighted Fair
Queuing (WFQ), SP+WRR queuing, and SP+WFQ queuing.
SP queuing
SP queuing is designed for mission-critical applications that require preferential service to reduce the
response delay when congestion occurs.
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