End-to-End Adaptive Congestion Control in TCP/IP Networks [Paperback]

Introduction. Performance Characteristics. Congestion Control for Best Effort: Internet. End-to-End Congestion Control - A Systems Theory Perspective. Adaptive Control Framework Description: NNRC. NNRC Rate Controller Design. NNRC Fairness Guarantees. NNRC Performance Evaluation. Future Directions. Appendices. References. Index.

Establishing adaptive control as an alternative framework to design and analyze Internet congestion controllers, End-to-End Adaptive Congestion Control in TCP/IP Networks employs a rigorously mathematical approach coupled with a lucid writing style to provide extensive background and introductory material on dynamic systems stability and neural network approximation; alongside future internet requests for congestion control architectures. Designed to operate under extreme heterogeneous, dynamic, and time-varying network conditions, the developed controllers must also handle network modeling structural uncertainties and uncontrolled traffic flows acting as external perturbations. The book also presents a parallel examination of specific adaptive congestion control, NNRC, using adaptive control and approximation theory, as well as extensions toward cooperation of NNRC with application QoS control.

• Uses adaptive control techniques for congestion control in packet switching networks
• Employs a rigorously mathematical approach with lucid writing style
• Presents simulation experiments illustrating significant operational aspects of the method; including scalability, dynamic behavior, wireless networks, and fairness
• Applies to networked applications in the music industry, computers, image trading, and virtual groups by techl