Scalable Network Architecture for Flow‐Based Traffic Control

Many control schemes have been proposed for flow‐level traffic control. However, flow‐level traffic control is implemented only in limited areas such as traffic monitoring and traffic control at edge nodes. No clear solution for end‐to‐end architecture has been proposed. Scalability and the lack of a business model are major problems for deploying end‐to‐end flow‐level control architecture. This paper introduces an end‐to‐end transport architecture and a scalable control mechanism to support the various flow‐level QoS requests from applications.