A congestion control algorithm is proposed for resilient packet ring (RPR) in this paper. In thisalgorithm, nonlinear explicit rate feedback control is used to ensure fast convergence and smooth equilibriumbehavior. The algorithm combines explicit rate control with a deficit round robin (DRR) scheduler, which notonly ensures fairness, but also avoids the implementation difficulties of explicit rate control algorithms. Thealgorithm has good features of fairness, fast convergence, smooth equilibrium, Iow queue depth, and easyimplementation. It is insensitive to the loss of congestion control packets and can adapt to a wide range of linkrates and network scales. It has solved the unbalanced traffic problem of spatial reuse protocol (SRP). Thealgorithm can be implemented on the multi-access control layer of RPR nodes to ensure fair and efficient accessof the best-effort traffic.
