Ranking of source-based congestion control approaches for high speed networks using AHP

Congestion control is a critical issue in internet environment because of its complex characteristics. Network congestion control can be characterized by several criteria like causes of congestion, type of congestion symptoms, congestion control location and objectives while congestion control. Thus, network congestion control can be treated as multi criteria decision-making problem. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is one of the ways to solve the multi criteria decision-making problem. In this paper, an attempt has been made to compute ranking of router-based congestion control approaches for high speed network using AHP model. The computed ranking will help to propose a decision-making model for router based congestion control algorithm and facilitate to select appropriate congestion control approach for a particular network environment.