The internet is once again suffering from its own success. Since 1995, there has been a massive increase in demand for internet services, resulting in an exponential growth of the Internet. We have entered now an era where the users of the Internet are unable to obtain the bandwidth needed to support their applications, and they are experiencing high packet loss. Packet loss problem arises whenever the number of packets arriving at a given router is much higher than its buffering space. The main goal of this thesis is to find adaptive schemes capable of optimizing the communication network ...