One of the most important functionalities for the dual connectivity (DC) technology in non-stand-alone (NSA) fifth generation (5G) networks is the flow control algorithm (FCA), which has the role of correctly splittin...
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One of the most important functionalities for the dual connectivity (DC) technology in non-stand-alone (NSA) fifth generation (5G) networks is the flow control algorithm (FCA), which has the role of correctly splitting the data traffic of users in DC. However, delays in backhaul links and the time between two executions of the FCA may limit the effectiveness of the split ratios computed by the FCA in situations where unexpected channel variations or an increase in the traffic load happen. In this context, we propose a heuristic mechanism where the user assists the FCA in performing a faster and finer adjustment of the bearer split ratios. The proposed mechanism works based on a single scalar value and can be combined with any existing FCA. Besides the adjustment of the bearer split ratios, the proposed mechanism may also trigger handover/disconnection when it detects problems in one of the user connections, which is a novel feature that is not present in existing solutions. Simulations demonstrate the gains provided by the proposed mechanism in terms of user satisfaction, total system rate and user throughput.
Evacuation in all emergency is always an important issue for shopping malls, subway stations and other Populous indoor places. The purpose of evacuation is to evacuate people from the danger zone through exits within ...
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Evacuation in all emergency is always an important issue for shopping malls, subway stations and other Populous indoor places. The purpose of evacuation is to evacuate people from the danger zone through exits within the shortest possible time. To help evacuation missions to be carried out efficiently and effectively by rescuers, a fast evacuation approach is needed. The proposed fast flow control algorithm in this paper Calculates evacuation paths in accordance with the floor plan (which contains detailed locations and dimensions of corridors and exit doors) and the total number of evacuees. The calculation is based on minimum overall evacuation time and all optimal number of evacuees assigned to each evacuation path. An example is presented at the end of the paper to illustrate real-time implementation of the proposed fast now controlalgorithm. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Markovian model for intermittent connections of various classes in a communication network is established and investigated. Any connection alternates between being OFF (idle) or ON (active, with data to transmit), a...
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A Markovian model for intermittent connections of various classes in a communication network is established and investigated. Any connection alternates between being OFF (idle) or ON (active, with data to transmit), and evolves in a way depending only on its class and the state of the network, in particular for the routes it uses among the network nodes to transmit data. The congestion of a given node is a functional of the throughputs of all ON connections going through it, and causes losses to these connections. Any ON connection reacts to its losses by self-adapting its throughput in TCP-like fashion so as to control network congestion. The connections interact through this feedback loop. The system constituted of their states (either OFF, or ON with some throughput) evolves in Markovian fashion, and since the number of connections in each class is potentially huge, a mean-field limit result with an adequate scaling is proved so as to reduce dimensionality. The limit is a nonlinear Markov process given by a McKean-Vlasov equation, of dimension the number of classes. It is then proved that the stationary distributions of the limit can be expressed in terms of the solutions of a finite-dimensional fixed-point equation.
This paper presents a flow control algorithm for a general-purpose computer-based residential gateway (RG) in a broadband access network. flowcontrol (bandwidth allocation) is one of the key elements in the RG softwa...
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This paper presents a flow control algorithm for a general-purpose computer-based residential gateway (RG) in a broadband access network. flowcontrol (bandwidth allocation) is one of the key elements in the RG software that is called the RG operating system. A credit-based flow control algorithm is proposed in this paper. The algorithm provides guaranteed services to CBR (constant bit rate) applications and allows VBR (variable bit rate) applications to share the link bandwidth within their delay tolerances through a credit system. The algorithm has been implemented in a real-time RG operating system which enables a personal computer to serve as an RG in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode-based (ATM) broadband access network. An experimental study on the efficiency of the algorithm and the methods of credit management is also presented in this paper. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Typically, bandwidth reservation is not made for data applications. Therefore, the only way to provide minimum bandwidth guarantees to such an application is by using a fairness mechanism to regulate the access to the...
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Typically, bandwidth reservation is not made for data applications. Therefore, the only way to provide minimum bandwidth guarantees to such an application is by using a fairness mechanism to regulate the access to the network and by controlling the packet loss (i.e., congestion) inside the network. There are numerous works treating fairness in ring networks, however, there are almost no such works on fairness in arbitrary topology networks. The context of this work is fairness in an arbitrary topology network, the MetaNet, which employs convergence routing, a loss-free routing technique which is a variant on deflection routing. We note that minimum bandwidth guarantee combined with loss-free routing are the desired quality-of-service (QoS) attributes for most data applications. While developing the mechanisms, we also present performance measures to assess the new access- and now-controlalgorithm: i) Locality and congestion-driven-only the subnetwork containing conflicting traffic streams becomes involved in the fairness regulation, Furthermore, the fairness regulation is activated only when congestion occurs, This implies that when there is no congestion, nodes can access the network immediately and freely, which is a key requirement for distributed computing. ii) Scalability-the data-structure sizes used in the algorithm are a function of the switching node degree, and use constant space control signals of two bits only (the ATR I standard, for example, dedicates four bits in the header of each cell to generic flow-control). iii) Linear access time in the congested subnetwork-measured by "the maximal clique in what we call the conflict graph to which a node belongs," and a frequency which is inverse linear in this parameter (when the traffic pattern stabilizes).
An input rate flowcontrol methodology for a virtual-circuit computer network is presented. Power is used as the performance measure of a virtual circuit and network power, which is the product of all of the virtual c...
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An input rate flowcontrol methodology for a virtual-circuit computer network is presented. Power is used as the performance measure of a virtual circuit and network power, which is the product of all of the virtual circuit powers, is used as the network performance measure. It is shown that the network power has a unique maximum point in the feasible region of the throughput space. A distributed flow control algorithm is presented and proof of convergence is given. Several numerical examples illustrate the algorithm.
Two classes of messages are defined in the EDA model, short and long messages. A flowcontrol method has been investigated, which grants the short messages higher priorities to compete with long messages for the bandw...
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Two classes of messages are defined in the EDA model, short and long messages. A flowcontrol method has been investigated, which grants the short messages higher priorities to compete with long messages for the bandwidths of physical links, based on virtual channels.
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