STABILITY FOR NETWORK FLOW CONTROL AGAINST DISTURBANCES AND TIME DELAYS.

New stability results are presented for Kelly's algorithm for network traffic control. These are applicable to a broad class of algorithms including most of those previously discussed in the literature. Three types of results are derived: an asymptotic stability result for networks with external disturbances but without time delays, an asymptotic stability result for a class of algorithms with a linear cost with both external disturbances and time delays, and a gain stability result for more general algorithms with both disturbances and time delays. The time-delay results are obtained using a gap metric approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]