Rate-based versus queue-based models of congestion control

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 606-619

  Deb, Supratim ^a   Srikant, R ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Active queue; Congestion control; Fluid models

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; ROUTERS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT (AQM); FLUID MODELS; QUEUE-BASED MODEL;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 33645809352     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2006.872839     Document Type: Article

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