Adaptive drop-tail: A simple and efficient active queue management algorithm for internet flow control

This paper provides a new Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithm, called Adaptive Drop-Tail. It is based on the novel idea of providing more buffering capacity as traffic increases in order to stabilize the transmission rate and to increase the network utilization. This is different from other proposals that increase the drop rate as congestion increases. Adaptive Drop-Tail is simple to implement. We demonstrate improvement in performance of this new load adaptive algorithm over several popular AQM algorithms through simulations.