15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
OPTIMAL DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING IN THE INTERNET
Bernardo Movsichoff    Constantino Lagoa
bernardo@gandalf.ee.psu.edu lagoa@engr.psu.edu
Department of Electrical Engineering. Pennsylvania State
University. University Park, PA 16802. USA

In this paper, we develop algorithms for decentralized traffic engineering when several classes of services are to be provided. More precisely, given an utility function of a very general form, we provide a large class of distributed control laws which converge to the maximum of the utility function subject to the network constraints and service requirements. Each ingress node adapts its sending rates and distributes the traffic among the multiple available paths independently and with minimum feedback from the network. These laws allow not only for best effort traffic (only type of traffic in today’s Internet) but also assured service traffic where a given target rate has to be achieved in average.
Keywords: Sliding Mode Control, Computer Communication Networks
Session slot T-Tu-E17: Optimal Control: Theory and Design II/Area code 2d : Optimal Control