Fuzzy Fractional-Order PID Congestion Control Based on African Buffalo Optimization in Computer Networks

Abstract

Congestion is the primary factor that slows down data transfer in communication networks. Transmission Control Protocol and Active Queue Management (TCP/AQM) collaborated to resolve this issue. The fuzzy-Fractional-Order-PID (FFOPID) controller is developed in this paper to control the linearized TCP/AQM model. The strategy is founded on a combination of fractional-order PID and fuzzy logic controllers. The primary objective of the proposed controller is to maintain the queue length of the router within the appropriate queue threshold for a congestion model. The control parameters are tuned using African Buffalo optimisation (ABO). The suggested controller is compared to other controllers (PID, Fuzzy-PID, and Fractional-order PID) to demonstrate the controller's efficiency, and all of these controllers are optimised using African Buffalo Optimisation (ABO). In MATLAB (R2017b), the simulation of the linearized model is introduced. Comparing the results of the Fuzzy-Fractional-Order-PID controller with those of other controllers in the same network scenarios reveals that the Fuzzy-FOPID is robust for a wide variety of TCP flows.