Flow control in a single-source discrete-time system

Abstract

In this chapter, we direct our attention to the design of flow control algorithms for networks in which the feedback information about the current network state is accessible for source rate adaptation at discrete time instants only. In this type of networks, in addition to the effects of nonnegligible delay, the design procedures need to explicitly account for the phenomena related to finite sampling rate. Hence, in this chapter, both the modeling and the controller design are performed directly in discrete-time domain.