Toronto Networking
Seminar
Distributed congestion control in networks: Solution
concepts, distributed algorithms, and some recent results
Ravi R. Mazumdar
Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University
of Waterloo
Date:
Friday, November 16, 2:10pm
Location: BA1220 (Bahen Center)
Abstract:
Distributed algorithms for congestion control in
networks have their origins in the work of Arrow and Debreu in Economic
Theory. Congestion control algorithms have two primary objectives:
maintaining system stability while preventing link congestion and the
appropriate allocation of flows in order to provide load balancing so
that the system performance is improved. In the late 80's it was
realized that these problems could be posed in the context of game
theory and the solution concepts such as Nash equilibria, Nash
bargaining, etc had important implications in terms of the performance
of distributed algorithms and fairness. Following the seminal paper of
Kelly 1n 1997, this approach had an even greater following due to its
strong connections with TCP. This led to work on primal-dual schemes
that are particularly attractive as user level and node level
procedures with scalability and decentralizability as important
engineering corollaries. More recently, investigations have returned to
the issue of network stability.
In this talk I will present the historical overview,
discuss the primal-dual schemes and their networking significance in
the context of wireless networks, and then present some recent results
on the performance of primal-dual algorithms when sessions or
connections arrive and depart dynamically.
Bio:
The speaker was educated at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Bombay (B.Tech, 1977), Imperial
College, London
(MSc, DIC, 1978)
and UCLA (PhD, 1983).
He is currently a University Research Chair
Professor in the Dept. of ECE at the University of Waterloo, Ont.,
Canada where he has been since September 2004.
Prior to this he was Professor of ECE at Purdue University,
West Lafayette, USA where he continues to be an Adjunct Professor.
He is an editor of the IEEE/ACM Trans on Networking and has
served as guest editor for a number of special issues of networking and
queueing related journals.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Statistical Society.
He shared the INFOCOM 2006 Best Paper Award and was runner-up for the
Best Paper Award at INFOCOM 1998.
His research interests are in modeling, control, and
performance analysis of both wireline and wireless networks, and in
applied probability and stochastic analysis with applications to
queueing, filtering, control, and mathematical finance.
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