Title : 
Global stability analysis of a TCP/AQM protocol for arbitrary networks with delay
         
        
            Author : 
Papachristodoulou, Antonis
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Control & Dynamical Syst., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We investigate global stability of fast AQM scalable TCP (FAST), a network congestion control scheme for the Internet modelled by a nonlinear delay differential equation with heterogeneous delays. The stability conditions resemble the ones from the linearization, are delay-dependent and scalable for arbitrary network sizes; the special structure of the system and the choice of TCP/AQM dynamics allow the construction of appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals in a scalable way.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; Lyapunov methods; delays; nonlinear differential equations; queueing theory; stability; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; FAST; Internet; Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals; TCP/AQM dynamics; TCP/AQM protocol; delay-dependent stability conditions; fast AQM scalable TCP; global stability analysis; heterogeneous delays; network congestion control scheme; nonlinear delay differential equation; scalable stability conditions; Control systems; Delay effects; Delay lines; Internet; Network topology; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear systems; Protocols; Resource management; Stability analysis;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Decision and Control, 2004. CDC. 43rd IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Nassau
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8682-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CDC.2004.1428823