GA-based PID active queue management control design for a class of TCP communication networks

  • Authors:
  • Chang-Kuo Chen;Hang-Hong Kuo;Jun-Juh Yan;Teh-Lu Liao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer and Communication, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Active queue management (AQM) is a key congestion control scheme for reducing packet loss and improving network utilization in TCP/IP networks. This paper proposes a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller as an active queue manager for Internet routers. Due to the limitations of packet-dropping probability and the effects of propagation delays in TCP networks, the TCP AQM network was modeled as a time-delayed system with a saturated input. An improved genetic algorithm is employed to derive optimal or near optimal PID controller gains such that a performance index of integrated-absolute error (IAE) is minimized, and thereby a stable queue length, low packet loss, and high link utilization for TCP networks are guaranteed. The performance of the proposed control scheme is evaluated in various network scenarios via a series of numerical simulations.