Fuzzy logic controlled RED: congestion control in TCP/IP differentiated services networks

Abstract

The use of the Internet for time-sensitive services, such as voice and video applications, requires a predictable quality of service. The TCP/IP differentiated services (Diff-Serv) architecture was introduced to achieve such performance. Network congestion control, however, still remains a critical and high priority issue. A number of researchers are looking at alternative schemes such as random early detection (RED) and its variants to handle congestion. In this paper we present the results of a fuzzy logic control approach to the implementation of RED --- Fuzzy-RED. We believe that with fuzzy logic we are able to use linguistic knowledge to implement better understood nonlinear probability discard functions, achieve better differentiation for packet discarding behaviors for aggregated flows, and so provide better quality of service to different kinds of traffic whilst maintaining high utilization.