Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Charles E. Rohrs, and Panos J. Antsaklis
International Journal of Control, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 24-47, 2003.
Abstract -- This paper examines explicit rate congestion control for
data networks. The Available Bit Rate (ABR) service category of Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) networks serves as an example explicit rate system. However,
the results of this paper are applicable to other systems as well. After a plant
model is established, a control strategy based on approximate inverse concepts
is introduced. The control process includes a linear digital filter (with a
DC or drift tap) that uses Normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) adaptation. The
convergence, stability and fairness properties of this control scheme are discussed.
This work differentiates itself from the other contributions in the area of
rate-based congestion control in its balanced approach of retaining enough complexity
as to afford attractive, analytically-proven performance properties, but not
so much complexity as to make implementation prohibitively expensive.
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