Advances in Multimedia
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 64695, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/64695
Research Article

Survival of the Fittest: An Active Queue Management Technique for Noisy Packet Flows

Shirish S. Karande, Kiran Misra, and Hayder Radha

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Michigan State University, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA

Received 7 November 2006; Accepted 21 December 2006

Academic Editor: Jianfei Cai

Copyright © 2007 Shirish S. Karande et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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