End-to-end rate control for networks with random access links

Rate control for point-to-point wide area networks has been extensively studied and is well understood by now. However, rate control for random access networks, and end-to-end congestion control for both point-to-point wide area networks and random access local area networks, has received less attention. In earlier work, we proposed and analyzed a rate control scheme for random access networks. In this paper, we propose an approach to combine this rate control scheme with existing rate control mechanism for point-to-point networks to provide end-to-end rate control.