@inproceedings{altman:abr,
    author = {E. Altman and T. Basar and R. Srikant},
    title = {Robust Rate Control for {ABR}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of {INFOCOM} '98},
    year = {1998},
    month = {March 29 -- April 2},
    address = {San Francisco},
    abstract = {In this work we have designed  explicit rate-based flow controllers for
ABR (Available Bit Rate) sources in a communication network. The goal
is to share the available capacity "fairly" among many sources while
maintaining queue length at a bottleneck node at a desired level.
This problem is first formulated as a stochastic control problem,
and then converted to an equivalent decentralized team problem. In this
reformulation, each member of the team has access to different information,
but yet minimizes a common objective function that encapsulates several
quality-of-service requirements. In the framework of the team problem,
rate-control mechanisms have been developed,  which stabilize the queue
length at  a bottleneck node, even though  different sources may experience
different round-trip delays to  this node. Various appealing robustness
properties of the solution have been illustrated through simulation
experiments, among which is robustness with respect to unknown and variable
delays.}
}