Optimal Multilevel Feedback Policies for ABR Flow Control using Two Timescale SPSA

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1999Author
Bhatnagar, Shalabh
Fu, Michael C.
Marcus, Steven I.
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Optimal multilevel control policies for rate based flow control in available bit rate (ABR) service in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks are obtained in the presence of information and propagation delays, using a numerically efficient two timescale simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) algorithm. Numerical experiments demonstrate fast convergence even in the presence of significant delays and a large number of parametrized parameter levels.