Design of a robust observer-based memoryless H ∞ control for internet congestion

Abstract

Summary This work is concerned with the transmission control protocol(TCP)-based active queue management for alleviating Internet congestion. To achieve the objective, a novel robust observer-based H∞ control scheme is proposed to stabilize the data queue length of the router to a given target. The robust observer is advocated to reconstruct a substitution state of the TCP window size under uncertain Internet environments, wherein the TCP window size is almost impossible to be explicitly measured in practise. Meanwhile, a memoryless H∞ controller is employed to guarantee the system asymptotical stability and further enhance the robustness. With the assistance of a unique nonlinear decoupling method, a feasible controller design method is presented in terms of linear matrix inequality. Compared with the existing literatures, the proposed control principle is more practical, and it can be conveniently implemented into the Internet routers while introduces less computational burden. Finally, the proposed result is embedded into Network Simulator 2 and compared with the other schemes in the literature. Numerical experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.