RBF-PID Based Adaptive Active Queue Management Algorithm for TCP Network

Abstract

Active queue management (AQM) has been widely used for congestion avoidance in transmission control protocol (TCP) networks. Although numerous AQM schemes have been proposed to regulate a queue size close to a reference level, most of them are incapable of adequately adapting to TCP network dynamics due to TCP's non-linearity and time-varying stochastic properties. To alleviate these problems, we propose a novel adaptive AQM(active queue management ) algorithm for TCP network to cope with the network delay and time-varying network parameters based on RBF-PID controller, the RBF(redial basis function) neural network is employed to automatically tune the controller's parameters according to link capacity, traffic load and transmitting time-delay, which makes the presented AQM algorithm perform well for a wide-range of network conditions. The simulation results have shown that the RBF-PID-based AQM is feasible and efficient, and yields superior performance with faster transient time and better adaptive ability compared to the proportional-integral (PI)-based AQM.