Title :
On flow control in multimedia networks
Author :
Varshney, Pramod K. ; Dey, Surajit
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Syracuse Univ., NJ, USA
Abstract :
A flow control procedure is presented for virtual circuit computer networks with multimedia data traffic. It is assumed that the data packets belong to different priority groups. Power is used as the performance measure for a virtual circuit (VC). The input rate controller of every virtual circuit selects a throughput which maximizes its own objective function. A distributed algorithm is given which can be executed by the input rate controllers of the VC´s without the global knowledge of the network. It is shown that the algorithm coverages to the optimum of the objective function of every virtual circuit and the solution is shown to be independent of the initial throughputs. Some network examples are solved by analytical and numerical methods
Keywords :
computer networks; multimedia systems; performance evaluation; data packets; distributed algorithm; flow control; multimedia networks; network examples; performance measure; virtual circuit computer networks; Circuits; Communication system traffic control; Computer networks; Delay; Intelligent networks; Power measurement; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Traffic control; Virtual colonoscopy;
Conference_Titel :
High-Performance Distributed Computing, 1992. (HPDC-1), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Syracuse, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2970-3
DOI :
10.1109/HPDC.1992.246473
