Boundedness and global stability of a nonlinear congestion control with delays

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1514-1519

  Wang, Zhikui ^a   Paganini, Fernando ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundedness; Congestion control; Global stability; Time delay systems

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BOUNDEDNESS; GLOBAL STABILITY; TIME-DELAY SYSTEMS;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 33749004842     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2006.880794     Document Type: Article

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