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A New Paradigm for On-Line Management of Communication Networks with Multiplicative Feedback Control

In: Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet

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  • Haining Yu
  • Christos G. Cassandras

Abstract

We describe the use of Stochastic Flow Models (SFMs) for control and optimization (rather than performance analysis) of computer networks. After reviewing earlier work applying Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis (IPA) to SFMs without feedback or with additive feedback, we consider systems operating with a multiplicative feedback control mechanism. Using IPA, we derive gradient estimators for loss and throughput related performance metrics with respect to a feedback gain parameter and show their unbiasedness. We also illustrate the use of these estimators in network control by combining them with standard gradient-based stochastic approximation schemes and providing several simulation-based examples.

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  • Haining Yu & Christos G. Cassandras, 2005. "A New Paradigm for On-Line Management of Communication Networks with Multiplicative Feedback Control," Springer Books, in: André Girard & Brunilde Sansò & Felisa Vázquez-Abad (ed.), Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet, chapter 0, pages 297-332, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-25551-4_12
    DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25551-6_12
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