Fuzzy Explicit Marking for Congestion Control in Differentiated Services Networks

This paper presents a new active queue management scheme, Fuzzy Explicit Marking (FEM), implemented within the differentiated services (Diff-Serv) framework to provide congestion control using a fuzzy logic control approach. Network congestion control remains a critical and high priority issue. The rapid growth of the Internet and increased demand to use the Internet for timesensitive voice and video applications necessitate the design and utilization of effective congestion control algorithms, especially for new architectures, such as DiffServ. As a result, a number of researchers are now looking at alternative schemes to TCP congestion control. RED (Random Early Detection) and its variants are one of these alternatives to provide quality of service (QoS) in TCP/IP Diff-Serv networks. The proposed fuzzy logic approach for congestion control allows the use of linguistic knowledge to capture the dynamics of nonlinear probability marking functions and offer effective implementation, use...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ISCC
• Authors: Chrysostomos Chrysostomou, Andreas Pitsillides, George Hadjipollas, Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu, Marios M. Polycarpou
• Keywords: Communications, Congestion Control, Congestion Control Algorithms, ISCC 2003, Network Congestion Control