A control theoretical approach to congestion control in packet networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 893-906

  Cavendish, Dirceu ^a   Gerla, Mario ^b   Mascolo, Saverio ^c  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SYSTEM STABILITY;

STABILITY ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 7244233017     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2004.836146     Document Type: Article

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