In this paper, based on the inherent characteristic of the contention relation between flows in ad hoc networks, we introduce the notion of the link's interference set, extend the utility maximization problem represe...In this paper, based on the inherent characteristic of the contention relation between flows in ad hoc networks, we introduce the notion of the link's interference set, extend the utility maximization problem representing congestion control in wireline networks to ad hoc networks, apply the penalty function approach and the subgradient method to solve this problem, and propose the congestion control algorithm Penalty function-based Optical Congestion Control (POCC) which is implemented in NS2- simulator. Specifically, each link transmits periodically the information on its congestion state to its interference set; the set ; the sermon at each source adjusts the transmission rate based on the optimal tradeoffbetween the utility value and the congestion level which the interference set of the links that this session goes though suffers from. MATLAB-based simulation results showed that POCC can approach the globally optimal solution. The NS2-based simulation results showed that POCC outperforms default TCP and ATCP to achieve efficient and fair resource allocation in ad hoc networks.展开更多
文摘In this paper, based on the inherent characteristic of the contention relation between flows in ad hoc networks, we introduce the notion of the link's interference set, extend the utility maximization problem representing congestion control in wireline networks to ad hoc networks, apply the penalty function approach and the subgradient method to solve this problem, and propose the congestion control algorithm Penalty function-based Optical Congestion Control (POCC) which is implemented in NS2- simulator. Specifically, each link transmits periodically the information on its congestion state to its interference set; the set ; the sermon at each source adjusts the transmission rate based on the optimal tradeoffbetween the utility value and the congestion level which the interference set of the links that this session goes though suffers from. MATLAB-based simulation results showed that POCC can approach the globally optimal solution. The NS2-based simulation results showed that POCC outperforms default TCP and ATCP to achieve efficient and fair resource allocation in ad hoc networks.