Fuzzy logic congestion control in IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks: A performance evaluation

IEEE AFRICON Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nyirenda, Clement N ^a,b   Dawoud, Dawoud S ^c  

^a IEEE

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Access point; Active queue management; Fuzzy logic; Wireless local area networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; JITTER; MECHANISMS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); QUEUEING NETWORKS; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACCESS POINT; ACCESS POINTS; ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT; ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT ALGORITHMS; AQM ALGORITHMS; CONGESTION CONTROL; CONGESTION CONTROL MECHANISM; CONGESTION DETECTION; DROP TAIL; FUZZY LOGICS; IEEE 802.11; IN CHANNELS; IP-NETWORKS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES; PACKET LOSS RATES; PARTICLE SWARMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TRAFFIC FLOWING; UDP TRAFFIC; WIRED NETWORKS; WIRELESS INTERFACES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 48649105243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFRCON.2007.4401645     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. J. Schiller, "Mobile Communications," ISBN 0-201-39386-2, 2000.
2. Martin Kappes and Sachin Garg, "An Experimental Study of Throughput for UDP and VoIP Traffic in IEEE 802.11b Networks," In Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2003
3. Cox, John. "Wireless LAN throughput on the rise," Network World Fusion, 26 September, 2003 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/092980211n.html.
4. http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/techno/media/lan/gig/tech/10gig_sd. htm
5. S. Yi et al. "Proxy-RED: An AQM scheme for wireless LANS", in Proc. ICCCN, Chicago, Oct. 2004.
6. Sally Floyd and Van Jacobson, "Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance", IEEE/ACM Transactions in Networking, 1(4):397-413, August 1993
7. Jing Zhu, and Sumit Roy, "802.11 Mesh Networks with Two-Radio Access Points", ICC 2005, May 2005, Seoul, Korea.
8. http://www.meshnetworks.com
9. F Ren et al., "Design of a fuzzy controller for active queue management", Computer Communications 25 (2002) 874-883
10. C. Chrysostomou et al., "Fuzzy Logic Congestion Control in TCP/IP Best-Effort Networks",2003 Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2003), Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 December 2003 (CD ROM - ISBN: 0-646-42229-4).
11. C.N. Nyirenda, D.S. Dawoud, "Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Fuzzy Logic Based Active Queue Management", In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference in Fuzzy Systems as part of the Fourth IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2006), Vancouver, BC, Canada, pages: 2231-2238, 16-21 July 2006.
12. C.N. Nyirenda, D.S. Dawoud, "Self-Organization in a Particle Swarm Optimized Fuzzy Logic Congestion Detection Mechanism for IP Networks", Submitted to Scientia Iranica, International Journal of Science and Technology.
13. S. Floyd, R. Gummadi, S.Shenker. Adaptive RED: An Algorithm for increasing the robustness of RED's Active Queue Management. Technical report ICSI, August 2001.
14. C. V. Hollot et al. "Analysis and Design for controllers for AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 6 , pp. 945-959, June 2002.
15. G.T. Pulido and C.A. Coello Coello, "Using Clustering Techniques to Improve the Performance of a Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizer," In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3102, pp. 700-712, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2004.
16. J. Kennedy and R.C. Eberhart, "Particle swarm optimization," In Proceedings IEEE ICNN, 1995, pp. 1942-1948
17. B. Zhao and Y. Cao, "Multiple objective particle swarm optimization technique for economic load dispatch," Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE 2005, 6A(5):pages 420-427