Introduction.- Congestion Control in Data Transmission Networks: An Historical Perspective.- Fundamentals of Sliding-mode Controller Design.- Flow Control in Continuous-time Systems.- Flow Control in a Single-source Discrete-time System.- Flow Control in a Multi-source Discrete-time System.- Flow Control in Sampled-data Systems.- Discrete Sliding-mode Congestion Control in TCP Networks. Summary and Conclusions. Appendices: Simulations Performed with NS2 Network Simulator; Control-theoretic Concepts.
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