PD-controller: a new active queue management scheme

Author

Sun, Jinsheng ; Chen, Guanrong ; Ko, King-Tim ; Chan, Sammy ; Zukerman, Moshe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Nanjing Univ. of Sci. & Technol., China

Volume

6

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

3103

Abstract

This paper describes a proportional-differential (PD) control algorithm as a new active queue management (AQM) scheme for TCP/IP congestion control. From the viewpoint of the control theory, TCP congestion control system can be regarded as a feedback regulating system. In this paper, a robust AQM called PD-controller is proposed. The design principles of PD-controller are presented in details. Its performance is extensively evaluated by simulations. The results demonstrate that the PD-controller AQM is stable and robust against traffic load fluctuations, UDP and HTTP disturbances. Its superiority over other AQMs is also demonstrated.

Keywords

PD control; feedback; queueing theory; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; Internet protocol; PD-controller; TCP/IP congestion control; active queue management scheme; feedback regulating system; proportional-differential control; traffic load fluctuations; transport control protocol; Buffer overflow; Control systems; Control theory; Internet; PD control; Proportional control; Quality of service; Robustness; Sun; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258806

Filename

1258806