Forward Explicit Congestion Notification. A bit in the Frame Relay header that is set when the network router has detected congestion in the destination direction (or "foreward," from the packet's point of view). See also Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (BECN).
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification. A flow control method used in Frame Relay to advise the sender that upstream network resources are busy.
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification. Where a bit in the overhead of a data packet in a frame relay network is set 1 if the packet travels through network congestion in the same direction it is flowing, that signals the network to higher level protocols to take flow control action. Example - Done to keep the data packet flow from exceeding the CIR for the connection, and a counterpart to BECN.
forward explicit congestion notification. Bit set by a Frame Relay network to inform DTE receiving the frame that congestion was experienced in the path from source to destination. DTE receiving frames with the FECN bit set can request that higher-level protocols take flow-control action as appropriate. Compare with BECN.
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification. A Frame Relay method in which the router notifies the destination device that it needs to send more frames than the line speed allows. This results in congestion at the router.
A bit in the Frame Relay header by which the network can inform the receiver of network congestion.
Forward explicit congestion notification. In a Frame Relay network, a header bit transmitted by the source device requesting that the destination device slow down its requests for data. FECN and BECN minimize the possibility that packets will be discarded when more packets arrive than can be handled. See also BECN.
