Multilevel flow control in telecommunication networks

✍ Scribed by Christos Douligeris; Ravi Mazumdar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 964 KB
• Volume: 331
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(94)90006-x

✦ Synopsis

Thejow controlproblem in a multiclass communications environment is modelled as a multilevelproblem, where one of the users or the manager of the network has a precedence in the decision process. Users control the number of packets they allow into the network to maximize their throughput under a maximum allowable average delay constraint. The original nonlinear multilevel problem is transformed to a multilevel linear program, which is subsequently solved through an equivalent linear programming formulation. The effects of delay> constraints, number of allowed packets and speeds of the links on the performance of the system and on the behaviour of the individual users are studied extensivel_v.