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TCP/IP Interaction Based on Congestion Price: Stability and Optimality

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Overview Despite the large body of work studying congestion control and adaptive routing in isolation, much less attention has been paid to whether these two resource-allocation mechanisms work well together to optimize user performance. Most analysis of congestion control assumes static routing, and most studies of adaptive routing assume the offered traffic is fixed. This paper analyzes the interaction between congestion control and adaptive routing, and study the stability and optimality of the joint system. Previous work has shown that the system can be modeled as a joint optimization problem that naturally leads to a primal-dual algorithm with shortest-path routing using congestion prices as the link weights.

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Publisher	Princeton University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2005	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, TCP - IP

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