Stable, scalable, fair congestion control and AQM schemes that achieve high utilization in the Internet

Virtual queue-based active queue management schemes have been proposed to provide low-loss, low-delay service in the Internet. In an earlier work, we had proposed a particular scheme called the adaptive virtual queue (AVQ) algorithm where the capacity of the virtual queue is adapted to the traffic conditions to achieve a desired level of utilization in the network. Here, we study the choice of the parameters of the congestioncontrollers at the sources and the AVQ scheme at the links that is required to ensure stability. In particular, we consider a system in which users with diverse round-trip delays and fairness requirements access a general topology network. For this system, we show that, by choosing the speed of adaptation at the sources and the links appropriately, one can guarantee the stability of the network.