A novel self-tuning feedback controller for active queue management supporting TCP flows

  • Authors:

  • Naixue Xiong;Athanasios V. Vasilakos;Laurence T. Yang;Cheng-Xiang Wang;Rajgopal Kannan;Chin-Chen Chang;Yi Pan

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA;Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece;Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada;Joint Research Institute for Signal and Image Processing, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK;Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Wireless access points act as bridges between wireless and wired networks. Since the actually available bandwidth in wireless networks is much smaller than that in wired networks, there is a bandwidth disparity in channel capacity which makes the access point a significant network congestion point. The recently proposed active queue management (AQM) is an effective method used in wired network and wired-wireless network routers for congestion control, and to achieve a tradeoff between channel utilization and delay. The de facto standard, the random early detection (RED) AQM scheme, and most of its variants use average queue length as a congestion indicator to trigger packet dropping. In this paper, we propose a Novel autonomous Proportional and Differential RED algorithm, called NPD-RED, as an extension of RED. NPD-RED is based on a self-tuning feedback proportional and differential controller, which not only considers the instantaneous queue length at the current time point, but also takes into consideration the ratio of the current differential error signal to the buffer size. Furthermore, we give theoretical analysis of the system stability and give guidelines for the selection of feedback gains for the TCP/RED system to stabilize the instantaneous queue length at a desirable level. Extensive simulations have been conducted with ns2. The simulation results have demonstrated that the proposed NPD-RED algorithm outperforms the existing AQM schemes in terms of average queue length, average throughput, and stability.