This article describes a basic, simple mechanism for the rate control of data transmission and reception which can be efficiently implemented in hardware to operate at gigabit-per-second media speeds, and from which all relevant schemes described in the literature can be readily constructed.
By: Willibald Doeringer (FH Worms, Germany) and Marco Heddes
Published in: RZ2754 in 1995
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