Joint Congestion Control, Routing, and MAC for Stability and Fairness in Wireless Networks

Abstract--In this paper, we describe and analyze a joint scheduling, routing and congestion control mechanism for wireless networks, that asymptotically guarantees stability of the buffers and fair allocation of the network resources. The queue-lengths serve as common information to different layers of the network protocol stack. Our main contribution is to prove the asymptotic optimality of a primal-dual congestion controller, which is known to model different versions of transmission control protocol well.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JSAC
• Authors: Atilla Eryilmaz, R. Srikant
• Keywords: Control Mechanism, JSAC 2006, Network Protocol Stack, Primal-dual Congestion Controller