An Intelligent Fuzzy Logic System for Network Congestion Control

Abstract

Network congestion is a major problem in all network environments as such it calls for ways to manage this problem. In this paper, we propose a Fuzzy Regulator Effective Random Early Detection (FRERED) system, which is an intelligent fuzzy logic based controller technique for early stage congestion detection, at the router buffer in the networks. The proposed technique extends the Fuzzy-Based system in the Fuzzy Hybrid ERED algorithm by considering the delay variable in its inference system to ease the problem of parameter initialization and parameter dependency. Unlike the Fuzzy-Based controller in the existing Fuzzy Hybrid ERED system which uses two parameter settings in its inference system that is, the queue size and average queue length in computing the dropping probability of packets. The proposed technique uses the queue size, average queue length and the delay approximation as input variables in computing the packet drop probability. The applied fuzzy logic system yields an output that denotes a packet dropping probability, which in turn controls and prevents congestion in early stage. This was achieved after simulating the proposed technique and the existing Fuzzy-Based controller using Matlab. The results obtained shows that this approach results in less packet drops for about the same link utilization as the existing Fuzzy-Based controller. Therefore, this technique, generally, controls network congestion and improves network performance. The methodology used to achieve this is the object oriented methodology and JAVA programming language was used to develop the system.