Adaptive fuzzy sliding mode active queue management algorithms

Abstract

Active queue management (AQM) is aimed at achieving the tradeoff between link utilization and queuing delay to enhance TCP congestion control and is expected to perform well for a wider-range of network conditions. Static AQM schemes despite their simplicity, often suffer from long response time due to conservative parameter setting to ensure stability. Adaptive parameter settings, which might solve this problem, remain difficult from implementation point of view. In this paper, we propose an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode (AFSM) AQM algorithm to achieve fast response and yet good robustness. The AFSM algorithm uses the queue length and its differential as the input of AQM and adjusts fuzzy rules by the measurement of packet loss ratio dynamically. The stability analysis under heterogeneous round trip times provides guidelines for parameter settings in AFSM and guarantees that the stability of AFSM is independent of the active TCP flows. This merit as well as other performances is examined under various network environments. Compared to some typical AQMs, the AFSM algorithm trades off the throughput with queuing delay better and achieves a higher per-flow throughput. Finally, AFSM can be executed at a scale of seconds with the least fuzzy rules.