@techreport{TR-IC-98-04,
  number = {IC-98-04},
  author = {Nelson L. S. Fonseca and Marcelo J. Ferreira},
  title = {On the Efectiveness of the {Longest-Packet-In} Selective Packet Discarding Policy},
  month = {March},
  year = {1998}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 33 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      In this paper, we introduce a novel packet discarding policy
      called Longest-Packet-In (LPI) which maximizes the cell goodput,
      the ratio of outgoing good cells to the total number of cells
      that arrive at a queue. We compare LPI to: Tail Drop, Early
      Packet Discard, Early Packet Discard with Hysteresis, and Fair
      Early Packet Discard with Hysteresis, by investigating the
      trade-off between maximizing the cell goodput and maximizing the
      packet goodput. We show that LPI not only provides the highest
      cell goodput, but also produces the highest packet goodput for a
      high ratio of the mean packet size to the buffer size and under
      a short-range dependent process. We evaluate the impact of
      network load, mean packet size, packet distribution and the
      Hurst parameter into both the cell goodput and into the packet
      goodput. Furthermore, we extend our analysis to networks which
      carry sources with distinct mean packet length.
  }
}