A coupled fuzzy logic control for routers' queue management over TCP/AQM networks

Abstract

Significant efforts in developing active queue management (AQM) in gateway routers in a TCP/IP network have been made since random early detection (RED) in 1993, and most of them are statistical based. Our approach is to capitalize on the understanding of the TCP dynamics to design an effective AQM scheme. In this paper, two FL-based AQM algorithms are proposed with the deployment of traffic load factor for early congestion notification. Extensive experimental simulations with a range of traffic load conditions have been done for the purpose of performance evaluation. The results show that the proposed two FLAQM algorithms outperform some well-known AQM schemes in terms of both user-centric measures and network-centric measures.