Technology and Networks

• FAST

• Robustness and the Internet

• Papers on networks:

1.    General Papers

• Rate control in communication networks: shadow prices, proportional fairness and stability
  F. P. Kelly, A.K. Maulloo and D. K. H. Tan,
  Journal of the Operational Research Society 49 (1998), 237-252.
  
  
• Optimization Flow Control, I: Basic Algorithm and Convergence
  S. H. Low and D. E. Lapsley
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 7(6):861-75, Dec. 1999
  
  
• A Duality Model of TCP and Queue Management Algorithms
  S. H. Low
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 11(4):525-536, August 2003

2.    Stability Analysis

• Congestion control for high performance, stability and fairness in general networks
  F. Paganini, Z. Wang, J. C. Doyle and S. H. Low.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(1): 43-56, February 2005.
  
  
• On the stability of networks operating TCP-like protocols
  Glenn Vinnicombe
  IFAC 2002
  
  
• Stable, Scalable, Fair Congestion Control and AQM Schemes that Achieve High Utilization in the Internet
  S. Kunniyur and R. Srikant.
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2003, pp. 2024-2029.

• Analysis of Nonlinear Delay Differential Equation Models of TCP/AQM Protocols Using Sums of Squares
  A. Papachristodoulou, J. C. Doyle, S. H. Low.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Paradise Island, Bahamas. 2004.

• Global Stability Analysis of a TCP/AQM Protocol for Arbitrary Networks with Delay
  A. Papachristodoulou.
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Paradise Island, Bahamas. 2004.

3.    FAST TCP prototype: Papers that define the FAST TCP prototype and analyze its stability properties.

• FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance
  C. Jin, D. X. Wei and S. H. Low;
  IEEE Infocom, March 2004

• Modeling and stability of FAST TCP
  J. Wang, D. X. Wei and S. H. Low.
  IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005

4.    Recent surveys:

• Internet Congestion Control
  S. H. Low, F. Paganini and J. C. Doyle
  IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 22(1):28-43, Feb. 2002

• Fairness and stability of end-to-end congestion control
  Frank Kelly
  European Journal of Control 9 (2003) 159-176.

• R. Srikant. The Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control
  Birkhauser, 2004

Protocol decomposition

• Cross-layer Optimization in TCP/IP Networks
  J. Wang, L. Li, S. H. Low and J. C. Doyle.
  IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 2005, to appear.
  
  
• Joint congestion control and media access control design for wireless ad hoc networks
  Lijun Chen, Steven H. Low and John C. Doyle
  IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005

The following paper describes a consequence of TCP's utility maximization:

• Is fair allocation always inefficient
  A. Tang, J. Wang and S. H. Low
  IEEE Infocom, March 2004

The following paper introduces a model for heterogeneous protocols that react to different price signals where the utility maximization model breaks down:

• Equilibrium of heterogeneous congestion control protocols
  A. Tang, J. Wang, S. H. Low and Mung Chiang
  IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005

• Collaborators:
  
  
  • Richard Murray
  • Steven Low