A new state space control scheme for Host-Gate Way Rate Control Protocol within intranets using ATM ABR service

In this paper, a new control strategy based on Host-Gate Way Rate Control Protocol is proposed for intranet congestion management. A more sophisticated optimal control algorithm based on a state space approach will be proposed via using the Available Bit Rate (ABR) service of an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) backbone network. The stability of the proposed control algorithm will be analyzed and the benefits of the algorithm are investigated thoroughly. Simulations confirm that the proposed new algorithm will produce lower queue level variance at the gateway. This implies that smaller buffers can fulfill the requirement for a given loss probability. Moreover, the queue level variance is less sensitive to variations in the ABR bandwidth model. This is true even when a self-similar long-range dependent trace is used to represent the ABR bandwidth in simulations, which is encouraging in view of the known self-similar nature of both LAN traffic and compressed video streams that will be sharing the ATM network.