Instability of a tandem network and its propagation under RED

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1006-1011

  La, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Congestion control; Network stability

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BIFURCATION; RANDOM EARLY DETECTION; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 3042692754     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2004.829635     Document Type: Article

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