Title
A Cooperative Differential Game Model for Multiuser Rate-Based Flow Control
Abstract
Flow control is one typical resource management tool. Its objectives are to adjust the traffic in the network, and resolve data traffic congestion, maximize the utilization of available bandwidth resource and realize fairness among different sources. Taking more consideration on the interaction and the dynamic characteristics of the flow, in this paper, we propose a cooperative differential game of flow control. Our goal is to assign sources with appropriate transmission rate levels so as to the queue length in the bottleneck link is optimal for the network performance and their benefits are maximal. We derive a payment distribution mechanism that would constitute a time-consistent solution and guarantee individual rationality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s11277-013-1072-5
Wireless Personal Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
available bandwidth resource,dynamic characteristic,bottleneck link,different source,cooperative differential game,cooperative differential game model,appropriate transmission rate level,flow control,network performance,multiuser rate-based flow control,data traffic congestion,typical resource management tool
Resource management,Bottleneck,Computer science,Queue,Differential game,Flow control (data),Bandwidth (signal processing),Payment,Distributed computing,Network performance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
72
2
1572-834X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhi-Mi Cheng1224.13
Xianwei Zhou226345.66
Yan Ding3223.79
Fuhong Lin410819.75