TY - JOUR
T1 - Statistical mechanics-inspired modeling of heterogeneous packet transmission in communication networks
AU - Sarkar, Soumik
AU - Mukherjee, Kushal
AU - Ray, Asok
AU - Srivastav, Abhishek
AU - Wettergren, Thomas A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received June 3, 2011; revised October 21, 2011; accepted January 24, 2012. Date of publication March 9, 2012; date of current version July 13, 2012. This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Grant N00014-09-1-0688 and in part by the Army Research Laboratory and the Army Research Office under Grant W911NF-07-1-0376. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor S. X. Yang.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper presents the qualitative nature of communication network operations as abstraction of typical thermodynamic parameters (e.g., order parameter, temperature, and pressure). Specifically, statistical mechanics-inspired models of critical phenomena (e.g., phase transitions and size scaling) for heterogeneous packet transmission are developed in terms of multiple intensive parameters, namely, the external packet load on the network system and the packet transmission probabilities of heterogeneous packet types. Network phase diagrams are constructed based on these traffic parameters, and decision and control strategies are formulated for heterogeneous packet transmission in the network system. In this context, decision functions and control objectives are derived in closed forms, and the pertinent results of test and validation on a simulated network system are presented.
AB - This paper presents the qualitative nature of communication network operations as abstraction of typical thermodynamic parameters (e.g., order parameter, temperature, and pressure). Specifically, statistical mechanics-inspired models of critical phenomena (e.g., phase transitions and size scaling) for heterogeneous packet transmission are developed in terms of multiple intensive parameters, namely, the external packet load on the network system and the packet transmission probabilities of heterogeneous packet types. Network phase diagrams are constructed based on these traffic parameters, and decision and control strategies are formulated for heterogeneous packet transmission in the network system. In this context, decision functions and control objectives are derived in closed forms, and the pertinent results of test and validation on a simulated network system are presented.
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U2 - 10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2186611
DO - 10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2186611
M3 - Article
C2 - 22411024
AN - SCOPUS:84864138287
SN - 1083-4419
VL - 42
SP - 1083
EP - 1094
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
IS - 4
M1 - 6166902
ER -