Design of robust congestion controllers for ATM networks

Author

Zhang, Hongyi ; Yang, Oliver W. ; Monftah, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

7-12 Apr 1997

Firstpage

302

Abstract

We propose an approach to design a rate-based proportional traffic controller in order to flow-regulate the best-effort service (e.g., ABR traffic) and guaranteed service traffic through an ATM switch. The controller is distributed and it has a very simple structure. Its local controller at each source node is open-loop stable and only requires the knowledge of the buffer occupancy at the bottleneck switch. We show that this controller is fair and is not sensitive to the change of virtual connections (VCs) over time. It does not have oscillations and can achieve a high utilization

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; buffer storage; control system synthesis; controllers; distributed control; proportional control; stability; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication networks; telecommunication traffic; ABR traffic; ATM networks; ATM switch; best-effort service; bottleneck switch; buffer occupancy; distributed controller; flow-regulation; guaranteed service traffic; local controller; open-loop stable controller; rate-based proportional traffic controller; robust congestion controllers design; source node; virtual connections; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Distributed control; Open loop systems; Quality of service; Robust control; Switches; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution., Proceedings IEEE

Conference_Location

Kobe

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7780-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1997.635146

Filename

635146