Degree of Aggregation

• Essentially a choice of per-flow or per-class state maintenance

  • per-flow: more protection on overload
  • per-class: less protection, easier to implement

• Can achieve min-max buffer allocation if always drop from the largest queue

• If using WFQ-like scheduler, drop packet with largest finish number, even w/out per-flow queuing

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