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Published March 2010 | Published
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Utility Functionals Associated With Available Congestion Control Algorithms

Abstract

This paper is concerned with understanding the connection between the existing Internet congestion control algorithms and the optimal control theory. The available resource allocation controllers are mainly devised to derive the state of the system to a desired equilibrium point and, therefore, they are oblivious to the transient behavior of the closed-loop system. To take into account the real-time performance of the system, rather than merely its steady-state performance, the congestion control problem should be solved by maximizing a proper utility functional as opposed to a utility function. For this reason, this work aims to investigate what utility functionals the existing congestion control algorithms maximize. In particular, it is shown that there exist meaningful utility functionals whose maximization leads to the celebrated primal, dual and primal/dual algorithms. An implication of this result is that a real network problem may be solved by regarding it as an optimal control problem on which some practical constraints, such as a real-time link capacity constraint, are imposed.

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© 2010 IEEE. Issue Date: 14-19 March 2010; Date of Current Version: 06 May 2010. This full text paper was peer reviewed at the direction of IEEE Communications Society subject matter experts for publication in the IEEE INFOCOM 2010 proceedings. This paper was presented as part of the main Technical Program at IEEE INFOCOM 2010. This research was supported by ONR MURI N00014-08-1-0747 "Scalable, Data-driven, and Provably-correct Analysis of Networks," ARO MURI W911NF-08-1-0233 "Tools for the Analysis and Design of Complex Multi-Scale Networks," and the Army's W911NF-09-D-0001 Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology.

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