Delay induced Hopf bifurcation in a dual model of internet congestion control algorithm (Q1021938)

This paper focuses on the delay induced Hopf bifurcation in a dual model of internet congestion control algorithms which can be modeled as a time-delay system described by a one-order delay differential equation (DDE). In this paper the authors attempt to use the perturbation method to study the dynamic behavior in a fair dual algorithm of a congestion control system. It should be noted that unlike the previous research in which the author has introduced a non-dimensional parameter \((k)\), here the authors consider the communication delay as a bifurcation parameter. Consider that the parameter \(k\), which is chosen as the bifurcation parameter, is a design parameter. It can be chosen appropriately in order to avoid the occurrence of oscillation in the system. However, this is not the case if the communication delay is taken into consideration. This will show that for a fixed parameter \(k\) with a proper value, there is a critical value of delay such that a stable limit cycle will bifurcate out from the equilibrium of the system when delay passes through the critical value. Since the communication delay is the round-trip time between the user and the source, it may vary depending on the network status which we cannot set in our network design. Therefore, it is valuable for us to study the complex dynamic behavior of the system when the communication delay is chosen as the bifurcation parameter. Moreover, the bifurcating periodic solution of the system is calculated by means of the perturbation method. Discussion of stability of the periodic solutions involves the computation of Floquet exponents by considering the corresponding Poincaré-Lindstedt series expansion. Finally, numerical simulations for verifying the theoretical analysis are provided.