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Network Constancy in Allocating the Resource with Multiple Connections
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Network resource allocation controls the number of different routes, where each connection is subject to congestion control. A cooperative users control the number of active connections based on congestion prices from the transport layer to emulate primal-dual dynamics in the aggregate rate. This achieves user-centric allocation. In non-cooperative users, the network stability and user-centric fairness can be enforced at the network edge. The issues in stability and fairness can be studied when routing of incoming connection is enabled at the edge router. The stability region can be obtained which can be served with routing alone and a generalization of admission control policy to ensure user-centric fairness when the stability condition is not met.
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