15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
ON THE STABILITY OF NETWORKS OPERATING TCP-LIKE CONGESTION CONTROL
Glenn Vinnicombe
Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge

We derive decentralized and scalable stability conditions for a fluid approximation of a class of Internet-like communications networks operating a modified form of TCP-like congestion control. The network consists of an arbitrary interconnection of sources and links with heterogeneous propagation delays. The model here allows for arbitrary concave utility functions and the presence of dynamics at both the sources and the links.
Keywords: Robust control, Communication networks, Complex systems
Session slot T-Th-A15: Applications of Robust Control II/Area code 2e : Robust Control