Research Article

Dynamic Transmission Rate Control for Multi-Interface IoT Devices: A Stochastic Optimization Framework

Table 1

Notations used in this paper.

NotationDescription

Number of data flows
Number of available links
Arrived packet number of flow at time
The transmission rate of link at time
Number of packets from data flow allocated to link at
The transmission rate of link assigned to data flow at
Queue backlog of data flow scheduled to link at
Time-average admitted packets of link
The utility function of link
Weight factor of link
Length of virtual queue for link
The auxiliary variable of link at
Nonnegative penalty parameter