[e2e] link between Kelly's control and TCP's AIMD

Cannara cannara at attglobal.net
Thu Feb 17 21:12:58 PST 2005


And, without understanding/modelling TCP's nonlinear behaviors, it will only
serve for gross predictions.

Alex

Ted Faber wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:31:08AM +0000, Damon Wischik wrote:
> >
> > Roy Xu wrote:
> > >I'm looking for a pointer to literatures that link the
> > >TCP's (discrete) AIMD to Kelly's (continuous) control formulation.
> >
> > Kelly's continuous-time formulation uses a differential equation model
> > (also called a fluid model) for TCP. You should look at the literature
> > which describes this fluid model, starting with
> >
> > "A Fluid-based Analysis of a Network of AQM Routers Supporting TCP Flows
> > with an Application to RED", V. Misra, W. Gong, D. Towsley, SIGCOMM 2000.
> 
> Fluid flow congestion control analysis goes beck to these guys at least:
> 
> %A D. Mitra
> %A T. Seery
> %T Dynamic Adaptive Windows for High Speed Data Networks: Theory and
> %Simulation
> %J Proc. SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols
> %P 30-29
> %I ACM SIGCOMM
> %C Philadelphia, PA
> %D Sept 24-27, 1990
> 
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