A General Framework for Flow Control in Wireless Networks

This paper studies the end-to-end flow control strategy of delivering videos over a data path, where in one end, a server retrieves large fixed-sized video blocks from its disk drive at a constant block rate. In the other end, a client consumes variable-sized compressed video frames at a fixed frame rate. Between the two ends, a network channel transmits small fixed-sized cells at a constant ce...

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In the note two errors in Low and Lapsley's article [1] are shown. Because of these errors the proofs of both theorems presented in the article are incomplete and some assessments are wrong. In the proof of Lemma 3 (at the beginning) on the page 871 it is written: " Given any p, q ≥ 0, using Taylor theorem and Lemma 2 we have ∇D(q)−∇D(p) = ∇ 2 D(w)(q −p) = [...] for some w = tp + (1 − t)q ≥ 0, ...

Research team: David A. Randall (Co-PI) Professor, Atmospheric Science Department, Colorado State University Dacian N. Daescu (Co-PI) Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University Steven J. Fletcher Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University Bahri Uzuznoglu Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State Universit...

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The rate control mechanism for available-bit-rate (ABR) traffic as defined by the ATM Forum does not distinguish between different types of ABR connections. However, since ABR traffic may result from a heterogeneous set of applications, there is an apparent need for a flow control scheme that can distinguish between and give differential treatment to different classes of ABR connections. In thi...

A General Framework for Flow Control in Wireless Networks