Most standard implementations of TCP perform poorly when packets are reordered. In this paper, we propose a new version of TCP that maintains high throughput when reordering occurs and yet, when… (More)
It is a truism that today’s simulations of mobile wireless networks are not realistic. In realistic simulations of urban networks, the mobility of vehicles and pedestrians is greatly influenced by… (More)
Interference and collisions greatly limit the throughput of mesh networks that use contention-based MAC protocols such as IEEE 802.11. Significantly higher throughput is achievable if transmissions… (More)
In this paper we present a general hybrid systems modeling framework to describe the flow of traffic in communication networks. To characterize network behavior, these models use averaging to… (More)
In this paper we propose a hybrid model for TCP’s congestion control mechanism operating under drop-tail queuing policy. Using this model we confirmed the standard formula T := 1.23 RTT √ p used by… (More)
A stochastic model of TCP is developed. Unlike many other models, this model accounts for variations in latency and loss probability. A major strength of this model is that it easily produces the… (More)
Linear-quadratic controllers for tracking natural and composite trajectories of nonlinear dynamical systems evoluting over compact sets are developed. Typically, such systems exhibit “complicated… (More)
The publication of Floyd and Jacobson's seminal paper "Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance" (1993), marked a new direction in networking research and began what is perhaps the… (More)
By posing the problem of bandwidth allocation as a constrained maximization problem, it is possible to study various features of optimal bandwidth allocation, and hence the capacity of the network.… (More)