This leads to certain scenarios where we would expect a router to have a large or a small buffer size depending on

the link connectivity. For instance, the routers closer to the edge have to have much larger buffers when compared
to routers placed at a bottle -neck network.

A. RULE OF THUMB
Traditionally, the router designer follow a bandwidth delay product (BDP) rule that buffer size B should be
approximately equal to product of C which is the capacity of the bottleneck link and T which is the effective two-
way propagation delay of the flows going through the router while designing buffer size.
𝐵=𝐶×𝑇

B. THE STANFORD MODEL

Figure 1: Topology of Single TCP flow.
Consider the following terminologies: the link bandwidth C is the maximum messages the link can hold during
congestion. RTT is the total round trip time and N is the total number of long lived TCP flows sharing the link.

𝐵=𝐶 ×𝑅𝑇𝑇 /(𝑁)1^2

buffer is not of a constant size. ,However, how can we decide on what shall be the buffer size for a particular
application. Amongst all the factors a few essential one are throughput, flow, synchronization, utilization,
applications, traffic rate and different RTT, etc.

VII. CONCLUSION
In this paper, we have tried to show that the researches which have been made so far, none of them comes to a
stand-alone point. The buffer sizing problem cannot be solved by considering just one criterion as each
performance factor counts towards its productivity.

The problem with designing is that till now a perfect traffic model is not known which could provide us with a
realistic scenario of internet traffic. And because of this none of the models proposed are tested except in
simulations. And one of the main reasons is that the Network administrator and the manufacture are not taking
risk of reducing the buffer size, so it’s hard