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Abstract

A method is provided for controlling congestion in an ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) switching system composed of a plurality of cell buffers incorporated in order to make its switching capacity large or to increase its cell buffer amount, which can ensure fair share among ABR (Available Bit Rate) connections passing through a same ATM switching system. In the method, a logical queue length in a cell buffer is monitored for every input side cell buffer section and logical queue length information is written into an idle field in RM cell or IRM (Internal Resource Management) cell and is transferred to an output cell buffer section. The output side cell buffer section is provided with a device adapted to calculate a degree of congestion from logical queue length information fed from each of input side cell buffer sections and to judge which input side cell buffer section has its most congested state. The output side cell buffer is provided with the device used to calculate the degree of the congestion in the output side cell buffer section itself by using logical queue length information. The congestion information in each of the input side cell buffers, the congestion information in the output side cell buffer itself and the congestion information contained in an RM (Resource Management) cell are compared and information indicating the most congested state out of three kinds of information is set to the RM cell.

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