Stability of a rate control system with averaged feedback and network delay

We study the stability of a variant of Kelly's rate control scheme in a simple setting with a single flow and a single resource. The feedback signal from the resource is a function of an average rate of the flow obtained using a low pass filter. We derive a sufficient condition for asymptotic stability in the presence of an arbitrary fixed communication delay from the resource to the sender. We show that a sufficient condition derived earlier for a system without averaging suffices. We validate our result using simulation with a family of popular utility and price functions.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: AUTOMATICA
• Authors: Richard J. La, Priya Ranjan
• Keywords: AUTOMATICA 2006, Low Pass Filter, Rate Control Scheme, Sufficient Condition