On the design of AQM supporting TCP flows using robust control theory

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1031-1036

  Quet, Pierre François ^a   Özbay, Hitay ^a,b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Active queue management (AQM); Communication networks; Control of uncertain systems with time delays; H control

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 3042600032     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.829643     Document Type: Article

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