[e2e] link between Kelly's control and TCP's AIMD

[Saverio Mascolo]

why do you think TCP congestion control is  not linear? I tend to agree with
Van Jacobson when syas that a network is to a large extend  a linear system
made of integrators, delays and gains.

Saverio


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> And, without understanding/modelling TCP's nonlinear behaviors, it will
only
> serve for gross predictions.
>
> Alex
>
> Ted Faber wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:31:08AM +0000, Damon Wischik wrote:
> > >
> > > Roy Xu wrote:
> > > >I'm looking for a pointer to literatures that link the
> > > >TCP's (discrete) AIMD to Kelly's (continuous) control formulation.
> > >
> > > Kelly's continuous-time formulation uses a differential equation model
> > > (also called a fluid model) for TCP. You should look at the literature
> > > which describes this fluid model, starting with
> > >
> > > "A Fluid-based Analysis of a Network of AQM Routers Supporting TCP
Flows
> > > with an Application to RED", V. Misra, W. Gong, D. Towsley, SIGCOMM
2000.
> >
> > Fluid flow congestion control analysis goes beck to these guys at least:
> >
> > %A D. Mitra
> > %A T. Seery
> > %T Dynamic Adaptive Windows for High Speed Data Networks: Theory and
> > %Simulation
> > %J Proc. SIGCOMM Symposium on Communications Architectures and Protocols
> > %P 30-29
> > %I ACM SIGCOMM
> > %C Philadelphia, PA
> > %D Sept 24-27, 1990
> >
> > --
> > Ted Faber
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