A device for performing congestion detection and management at a node of a network may include a congestion management module to monitor an arrival and a departure rate of data packets associated with a queue, a queue size, or a rate of change of the queue size. The congestion management module may identify the queue as a congested queue by one of determining that the arrival rate of the data packets associated with the queue is larger than the departure rate of the data packets associated with the queue, the queue size is larger than a first threshold, or the rate of change of the queue size is larger than a second threshold. The congestion management module may identify the congested queue as a congestion root by determining that the congested queue is not affected by a flow-control signal. A queue buffer temporarily stores data packets associated with the queue.