A Model-Based Approach to Access and Congestion Control in Communication Networks

This paper presents a design procedure for access and congestion control in communication networks. Motivated by an analysis of the characteristics of communication networks, the proposed approach makes use of model-based control methodologies. The design procedure is then applied to the problems of access control in satellite networks and congestion control in packet networks. The resulting schemes, easily obtained with the aim of providing full link utilization and congestion avoidance, respectively, are equal to two well-known protocols, validating the proposed design procedure.