Congestion management by determining optimal location of series FACTS devices using hybrid bacterial foraging and Nelder–Mead algorithm

In this paper, the Thyristor-Controlled Series-Compensated (TCSC) devices are located for congestion management in the power system by considering the non-smooth fuel cost function and penalty cost of emission. For this purpose, it is considered that the objective function of the proposed optimal power flow (OPF) problem is minimizing fuel and emission penalty cost of generators. A hybrid method that is the combination of the bacterial foraging (BF) algorithm with Nelder–Mead (NM) method (BF-NM) is employed to solve the OPF problems. The optimal location of the TCSC devices are then determined for congestion management. The size of the TCSC is obtained by using of the BF-NM algorithm to minimize the cost of generation, cost of emission, and cost of TCSC. The simulation results on IEEE 30-bus, modified IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 118-bus test system confirm the efficiency of the proposed method for finding the optimal location of the TCSC with non-smooth non-convex cost function and emission for congestion management in the power system. In addition, the results clearly show that a better solution can be achieved by using the proposed OPF problem in comparison with other intelligence methods.     

TCP协议在卫星网络中的问题研究

由于TCP协议直接应用到卫星网络中将可能会导致网络性能下降,因此针对卫星网络的特点,分析了传播时延、高误码率、非对称连接方式等特点对TCP协议性能的影响,对主要解决方法进行了分析、比较现有的几种解决方法利弊,应根据具体应用采用相应的解决方案。     

Multi-indicator Active Queue Management Method

A considerable number of applications are running over IP networks. This increased the contention on the network resource, which ultimately results in congestion. Active queue management (AQM) aims to reduce the serious consequences of network congestion in the router buffer and its negative effects on network performance. AQM methods implement different techniques in accordance with congestion indicators, such as queue length and average queue length. The performance of the network is evaluated using delay, loss, and throughput. The gap between congestion indicators and network performance measurements leads to the decline in network performance. In this study, delay and loss predictions are used as congestion indicators in a novel stochastic approach for AQM. The proposed method estimates the congestion in the router buffer and then uses the indicators to calculate the dropping probability, which is responsible for managing the router buffer. The experimental results, based on two sets of experiments, have shown that the proposed method outperformed the existing benchmark algorithms including RED, ERED and BLUE algorithms. For instance, in the first experiment, the proposed method resides in the third-place in terms of delay when compared to the benchmark algorithms. In addition, the proposed method outperformed the benchmark algorithms in terms of packet loss, packet dropping, and packet retransmission. Overall, the proposed method outperformed the benchmark algorithms because it preserves packet loss while maintaining reasonable queuing delay.     

浅谈TCP拥塞控制与其改进思路

如今网络已经离不开人们的生活,发展势头迅猛,网络的终端设备不仅在数量上,种类也越来越多,在此发展之下,保证大量的网络数据传输与网络性能相协调是极其重要的,经典的TCP拥塞控制机制是网络发展历史中人们想出的一种解决网络拥塞的方法,但如何适应当今网络发展的需求相信还是靠人们不断的探索来寻找合适的答案。本文致力于对经典TCP拥塞控制机制的讨论并提出相应的改进思路     

RED的网络性能研究*

在很多网络中, 支持新的拥塞避免机制( 如RED 和ECN) 的节点将会和支持传统丢尾缓存( Drop-Tail) 的节点共存。研究含有两个拥塞节点的混杂网络中TCP 流集的性能, 比较了几种控制算法的数据流公平性, 仿真结果显示采用Adaptive 算法并不能增加数据流的公平性; 仿真也显示混杂网络中单个RED 参数的设置情况会影响整个网络的性能, 具体可以从网络吞吐量、响应时间等判断。RED 的参数设置在双瓶颈情况下再次变得重要, 正如在单瓶颈的情况下一样。     

图书馆多媒体信息资源网络的自适应传输控制方法

为了增强图书馆多媒体信息的稳健传输和多媒体信息网络的鲁棒性、稳定性,提出了一种新颖的RED策略。最小阈值(minth)和最大阈值(maxth)能够随着缓存队列的平均占用率的变化动态调整,而不再是预设的固定参数。改进后,ATRED对路由器队列的控制力度能够根据网络环境的变化自适应调整,使得队长方差减小,队列振荡变小,网络更加稳定,能够在复杂多变的网络环境下提供更加可靠的服务。     

机会网络中基于元胞学习自动机的拥塞控制策略

对于机会网络中的多副本报文转发机制下由于节点缓存溢出而产生的拥塞现象,已有的控制策略仅考虑报文或者当前节点自身的信息,没有利用邻居节点之间的关系以及邻居节点上报文的存储情况来提高网络中报文的投递成功率。提出了一种基于元胞学习自动机的拥塞控制策略,主要是以局部环境中报文的特性来近似整个网络中报文的特性,根据报文所在节点的局部环境中周围邻居节点对该报文的持有情况,结合学习自动机的算法对报文的丢弃概率进行自动学习及更新。在报文复制时考虑对端节点的缓存熵信息,通过合理的报文的丢弃和复制,提高节点上缓存报文的信息量。实验仿真结果表明,该策略有效的降低了网络负载率和报文的投递延时,并提高了报文的投递率。     

计算机网络拥塞控制算法改进算法研究

网络拥塞是由于网络业务流不可预测的流量突发现象造成的。文章从考虑网络业务流突发现象产生的特点出发,采用可用带宽测量技术和流量整形技术,提出了一种针对传统网络拥塞控制算法的改进算法（TCP2Shape）。     

Performance enhancement of TCP in high-speed networks

GridFTP is a secure and reliable high-performance parallel data transfer protocol used for transferring massive amounts of widely distributed data. Currently it allows users to configure the number of parallel streams and socket buffer size. However, its tuning procedure for optimal combination is a time consuming task. The socket handlers and buffers are important system resources and must therefore be carefully managed. In this paper, we propose a scheme to achieve high throughput even with a smaller buffer size, and also derive a regression equation to predict the optimal combination of resources for a connection. To improve the performance, the TCP based on our scheme obtains higher throughput and spends less memory for the same throughput than the original TCP scheme. In addition, the regression equation is verified by comparing measured and predicted values, and we apply the equation to an actual experiment on the KOrea advanced REsearch Network (KOREN). The result demonstrates that the equation provides excellent predictions with only an 8% error boundary.     

Evalvid-RA: trace driven simulation of rate adaptive MPEG-4 VBR video

Due to the increasing deployment of conversational real-time applications like VoIP and videoconferencing, the Internet is today facing new challenges. Low end-to-end delay is a vital QoS requirement for these applications, and the best effort Internet architecture does not support this natively. The delay and packet loss statistics are directly coupled to the aggregated traffic characteristics when link utilization is close to saturation. In order to investigate the behavior and quality of such applications under heavy network load, it is therefore necessary to create genuine traffic patterns. Trace files of real compressed video and audio are text files containing the number of bytes per video and audio frame. These can serve as material to construct mathematical traffic models. They can also serve as traffic generators in network simulators since they determine the packet sizes and their time schedule. However, to inspect perceived quality, the compressed binary content is needed to ensure decoding of received media. The EvalVid streaming video tool-set enables this using a sophisticated reassembly engine. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of research solutions for rate adaptive media content. The Internet community fears a congestion collapse if the usage of non-adaptive media content continues to grow. This paper presents a solution named Evalvid-RA for the simulation of true rate adaptive video. The solution generates real rate adaptive MPEG-4 streaming traffic, using the quantizer scale for adjusting the sending rate. A feedback based VBR rate controller is used at simulation time, supporting TFRC and a proprietary congestion control system named P-AQM. Example ns-2 simulations of TFRC and P-AQM demonstrate Evalvid-RA’s capabilities in performing close-to-true rate adaptive codec operation with low complexity to enable the simulation of large networks with many adaptive media sources on a single computer.