The integration of routing and flow-control for voice and data in a computer communication network

A store and forward computer communication network may concurrently support more than one type of user. Because of different user characteristics, the control of each type of user may be done by different mechanisms. Moreover, for each type of user there may be more than one control mechanism operating concurrently. Algorithms previously proposed for user-mechanism pairs were analysed independently ignoring the significant interactions among them. In this thesis, we consider the voice user and the data user, and the routing mechanism and the flow control mechanism. We propose four algorithms, one for each user-mechanism pair. We show that these algorithms are compatible in the sense that they can be coordinated to achieve some reasonable objective when operating concurrently. Moreover, some of the algorithms are superior in some aspects to existing ones.