Quality of Service Impact on Deficit Round Robin and Stochastic Fair Queuing Mechanism in Wired-cum-Wireless Network

Abstract

The deficient round robin (DRR) and stochastic fair queue (SFQ) are the active queue mechanism (AQM) techniques. These AQM techniques play important role in buffer management in order to control the congestion in the wired-cum-wireless network by dropping packets during the buffer overflow or near to overflow. This research study focus on the performance evaluation of the DRR and SFQ using different scenarios such as increasing number of node scenario, pause time scenario and mobility scenario. We evaluate the performance of DRR and SFQ based on two parameters such as average packet delay and average packet dropped. In case of increasing number of nodes, the SFQ has outperformed than DRR by having comparatively low per packet delay. DRR has higher packet dropped ratio as compare to SFQ. In mobility and pause time scenario, SFQ has less per packet delay while DRR has less packet dropped ratio These results revealed that DRR performance was affected by an increase in the number of nodes in a network. The DRR send the packet in a round-robin fashion without caring about the bandwidth of a path due to which the packet dropped ratio was high. On another hand, the SFQ has comparatively outperformed in all scenarios by having less per packet delay. SFQ become aggressive by dropping more data packets during buffer overflow. In short, SFQ will be preferred for a network where the congestion occurred more frequently.