Bursting-like motion induced by time-varying delay in an internet congestion control model

Time delay is an problem of intemet congestion important parameter in the control. According to some researches, time delay is not always constant and can be viewed as a periodic function of time for some cases. In this work, an internet congestion control model is consid- ered to study the time-varying delay induced bursting-like motion, which consists of a rapid oscillation burst and quies- cent steady state. Then, for the system with periodic delay of small amplitude and low frequency, the method of multiple scales is employed to obtain the amplitude of the oscillation. Based on the expression of the asymptotic solution, it can be found that the relative length of the steady state increases with amplitude of the variation of time delay and decreases with frequency of the variation of time delay. Finally, an effective method to control the bursting-like motion is pro- posed by introducing a periodic gain parameter with appropriate amplitude. Theoretical results are in agreement with that from numerical method.

Oscillation control for n-dimensional congestion control model via time-varying delay

Time delay or round trip time (RTT) is an important parameter in the model of Internet congestion control. On the one hand, the delay may induce oscillation via the Hopf bifurcation. In the present paper, a congestion control model of n dimensions is considered to study the delay-induced oscillation. By linear analysis of the n-dimensional system, the critical delay for the Hopf bifurcation is obtained. To describe the relation between the delay and oscillation analytically, the method of multiple scales (MMS) is employed to obtain the bifurcating periodic solution. On the other hand, it can be understood that the oscillation will increase the risk of congestion for the network system. To avoid the congestion derived from the oscillation, a new control scheme is proposed by perturbing the delay periodically. Particularly, according to our study, it is possible to control the oscillation by perturbing only one of the n delays. This provides a practical scheme for the oscillation control in the real network system. By MMS, the strengths of the perturbations are predicted analytically such that the oscillation disappears. To give an example, an eight-dimensional model is studied in detail. The analytical results are in good agreement with the numerical simulations.