IEEE Standard for
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and
Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks—
Amendment 17: Priority-based Flow Control
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IEEE Std 802.1Qbb™-2011
(Amendment to
IEEE Std 802.1Q™-2011
as amended by IEEE 802.1Qbe™-2011
and IEEE Std 802.1Qbc™-2011)
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IEEE Std 802.1Qbb™-2011
(Amendment to
IEEE Std 802.1Q™-2011
as amended by IEEE Std 802.1Qbe™-2011
and IEEE Std 802.1Qbc™-2011)
IEEE Standard for
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and
Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks—
Amendment 17: Priority-based Flow Control
Sponsor
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 16 June 2011
IEEE-SA Standards Board
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Abstract: This amendment to IEEE Std 802.1Q-2011 specifies protocols, procedures, and
managed objects that enable flow control per traffic class on IEEE 802® point-to-point full duplex
links. This is achieved by a mechanism similar to IEEE 802.3 Annex 31B PAUSE, but operating on
individual priorities.
Keywords: flow control, IEEE 802.1Qbb, LANs, local area networks, MAC Bridges, priority,
transparent bridging, VLANs
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.1Qbb-2011, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks—Amendment 17: Priority-based Flow
Control.
This amendment to IEEE Std 802.1Q-2011 provides Priority-based Flow Control capabilities useful to
Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks to enable flow control per
traffic class on IEEE 802® point-to-point full duplex links.
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Participants
At the time this amendment was submitted to the IEEE-SA Standards Board for approval, the IEEE 802.1
Working Group had the following membership:
Anthony Jeffree, Chair
Paul Congdon, Vice Chair
Claudio DeSanti, Editor
Patricia Thaler, Chair, Data Center Bridging Task Group
Zehavit Alon
Yafan An
Ting Ao
Peter Ashwood-Smith
Christian Boiger
Paul Bottorff
Rudolf Brandner
Craig Carlson
Claudio DeSanti
Zhemin Ding
Donald Eastlake
Janos Farkas
Donald Fedyk
Norman Finn
Ilango Ganga
Geoffrey Garner
Anoop Ghanwani
Eric Gray
Yingjie Gu
Craig Gunther
Hitoshi Hayakawa
Hal Keen
Yongbum Kim
Philippe Klein
Oliver Kleineberg
Michael Krause
Li Li
Jeff Lynch
John Messenger
John Morris
Eric Multanen
David Olsen
Donald Pannell
Glenn Parsons
Joseph Pelissier
Rene Raeber
Karen Randall
Dan Romascanu
Jessy Rouyer
Panagiotis Saltsidis
Michael Seaman
Rakesh Sharma
Kevin B. Stanton
Robert Sultan
Michael Teener
Patricia Thaler
Chait Tumuluri
Maarten Vissers
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The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this amendment. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Thomas Alexander
Danilo Antonelli
Madhusudan Banavara
Hugh Barrass
Tomo Bogataj
Nancy Bravin
Edward Carley
James Carlo
Juan Carreon
Keith Chow
Charles Cook
Claudio DeSanti
Wael Diab
Thomas Dineen
Carlo Donati
Sourav Dutta
Frank Effenberger
Jose Dominic Espejo
C. Fitzgerald
Yukihiro Fujimoto
Ilango Ganga
Ignacio Marin Garcia
Devon Gayle
Anoop Ghanwani
Randall Groves
C. Guy
Marek Hajduczenia
John Hawkins
Ian Hilliard
Ryan Hirth
Akio Iso
Atsushi Ito
Raj Jain
Anthony Jeffree
Vincent Jones
Shinkyo Kaku
Piotr Karocki
Stuart J. Kerry
Max Kicherer
Yongbum Kim
Bruce Kraemer
Glen Kramer
Bruce Kwan
Juan L. Lazaro
Brian L’Ecuyer
Li Li
Greg Luri
Elvis Maculuba
Mark Maloney
Arthur Marris
Peter Martini
Sean Maschue
Jonathon McLendon
Jose Morales
Joseph Moran
Shimon Muller
Michael S. Newman
Glenn Parsons
Mark Pilip
Subburajan Ponnuswamy
Maximilian Riegel
Robert Robinson
Jessy Rouyer
Randall Safier
Peter Saunderson
Bartien Sayogo
Rich Seifert
Gil Shultz
Kapil Sood
Manikantan Srinivasan
Thomas Starai
Walter Struppler
Joseph Tardo
Michael Johas Teener
Patricia Thaler
David Thompson
Mark-Rene Uchida
Prabodh Varshney
Peter Yan
Oren Yuen
Wenhao Zhu
When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this amendment on 16 June 2011, it had the following
membership:
Richard H. Hulett, Chair
John Kulick, Vice Chair
Robert M. Grow, Past President
Judith Gorman, Secretary
Masayuki Ariyoshi
William Bartley
Ted Burse
Clint Chaplin
Wael Diab
Jean-Philippe Faure
Alexander Gelman
Paul Houzé
*Member Emeritus
Jim Hughes
Joseph L. Koepfinger*
David J. Law
Thomas Lee
Hung Ling
Oleg Logvinov
Ted Olsen
Gary Robinson
Jon Walter Rosdahl
Sam Sciacca
Mike Seavey
Curtis Siller
Phil Winston
Howard Wolfman
Don Wright
Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE-SA Standards Board liaisons:
Satish K. Aggarwal, NRC Representative
Richard DeBlasio, DOE Representative
Michael Janezic, NIST Representative
IEEE Standards Program Manager, Document Development
Michelle Turner
IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program Development
Kathryn Bennett
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