Predictive sliding‐mode congestion control for wireless access networks with singular and non‐singular control gain

Abstract

Transmission control protocol, in the transport layer of a network, can usually detect congestion after its occurrence. Therefore, designing a robust active queue management (RAQM) is imperative to prevent congestion along with being robust against wireless environment issues such as packet error rate and fading. Moreover, a communication network suffers from input delay as well as the state delay which is multiplied to the control input signal. The main contribution of the authors’ study is to design a predictive sliding mode control (PSMC) procedure as a RAQM to guarantee the input delay system stability and to regulate the queue length to the desired value. Firstly, a predictor is designed for the original system to obtain an input delay free model. Then, a RAQM is designed based on PSMC for the system with non-singular and singular control gain. The disturbance observer ensures that the estimation error tends to zero. Unlike the prevalent procedures designed for the networks, the proposed method can avoid the singular gain problem in the control design. Furthermore, it can stabilise the system and can prevent congestion with robustness against external disturbances. Finally, the simulation results, obtained from SIMULINK and professional network simulator 2, confirm the analytical consequences.