Abstract

We proposed earlier an optimization approach to reactive flow control where the objective of the control is to maximize the total utility of all sources over their transmission rates. The control mechanism is derived as a gradient projection algorithm to solve the dual problem. In this paper we consider two extensions to the basic algorithm. First, the basic algorithm requires communication from sources of their rates to links in their paths in order to carry out the gradient projection algorithm. We prove that it is possible for the links to estimate the gradient using only local information, thus eliminating the need for explicit communication. Second, the basic algorithm assumes that each source is served by a single path. We generalize the model to the case where there are multiple paths between a source--destination pair. This allows flow control and routing to be jointly optimized. 1 Introduction We have proposed previously an optimization approach to flow control where the cont...

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