The effect of uncertain time-variant delays in ATM networks with explicit rate feedback: A control theoretic approach

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 628-637

  Sichitiu, Mihail L ^a   Bauer, Peter H ^b   Premaratne, Kamal ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE;

EID: 0041915579     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2003.815293     Document Type: Article

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