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Understanding network latency is important for providing consistent and acceptable levels of servicesin network-based applications. Due to the difficulty of estimating applications' network demands and the difficulty of predicting network load, however, the management of network resources has often been ignored in network-based systems. This paper presents network traffic oscillating behavior that...
Congestion control is vital in the streaming of a video sequence or clip, as network traffic varies unpredictably requiring constant adjustment of the transmission rate. Standard TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) wastes bandwidth and may react to congestion only when packet loss has already occurred. This paper presents a unicast transport protocol named RRB-SIMD for video streaming over the Internet,...
Today's Internet is a massive, distributed network which continues to grow in size as globalization takes major role in everyone's life. The problem is complicated by the fact that one cannot rely on the cooperation of individual servers and routers to aid in the collection of network traffic measurements vital for these tasks. Packet Forwarding Priority can have a significant impact on the performance...
Several studies have shown the potential of Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission schemes to increase spectral efficiency. However, most CoMP algorithms are susceptible to outdated channel state information, which is a consequence of inter-eNodeB signaling over the backhaul network. User traffic variation constitutes another time-varying process which interacts with CoMP algorithms. These interactions...
The Internet is witnessing explosive growth in traffic, in large part due to bulk transfers. Delivering such traffic is expensive for ISPs because they pay other ISPs based on peak utilization. To limit costs, many ISPs are deploying ad-hoc traffic shaping policies that specifically target bulk flows. However, there is relatively little understanding today about the effectiveness of different shaping...
Internet performance measurement is commonly perceived as a high-cost control-plane activity and until now it has tended to be implemented on top of the network's forwarding operation. Consequently, measurement mechanisms have often had to trade relevance and accuracy over non-intrusiveness and cost effectiveness. In this paper, we present the software implementation of an in-line measurement mechanism...
This work presents a study of RTP multiplexing schemes, which are compared with the normal use of RTP, in terms of ITU R-factor quality estimator. The bandwidth saving of the different schemes is studied, and some tests with VoIP traffic are carried out in order to compare R-factor using three different router buffer policies. Network delays are added using an adequate statistical distribution. The...
Switch fabrics for 100 Gigabit Ethernet systems pose high demands in terms of delay and scalability. In this paper we analyze the performance of a Clos-based switch fabric under uniform and bursty traffic, and compare its performance to a crossbar-based switch design for benchmarking. In particular, we focus on a Clos-design using a Space-Memory-Memory (SMM) configuration, which has recently gained...
We develop a protocol through which multipath enabled IP routers collectively engage in dynamic traffic engineering, to optimize performance in concert with legacy TCP congestion control. We build on recent theory which shows a globally optimum resource allocation across the TCP/IP layers can be achieved through control of rates and multipath routing fractions following a consistent congestion signal...
Streaming services such as voice and video based on IP technologies have been deployed widely throughout the world. The Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is one of broadband access technologies used to offer these services. Network operators and/or integrators must estimate ADSL link rates from the Network Operation Centers (NOC) which are far away from the customer's site. They must also...
The presence service provides event-based notifications of the status of contacts. Currently duplicate notifications must be sent directly to a set of watchers in unicast messages, putting unneeded strain on outgoing network links of the source node. In this article, we propose an extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to distribute notifications through a tree of watchers using network...
Inter-domain handoffs in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) must evaluate the resource conditions of the target handoff domain in order to make QoS handoff decisions. Performance degradations to either or both handoff and existing QoS-aware traffic occur when resources on gateways and mesh routers in the handoff domain are over-utilized, while on the other hand, global resources across domains might still...
The recent trend in Internet traffic indicates the proliferation of usage of multimedia services where a substantial part is related to some sort of video transmission. Moreover, an increasing number of Internet users employ wireless access technologies. High-quality video streaming over wireless access in unison with great mobility brings challenges to sustain the mobile user perceived video quality...
IEEE 802.16d standard defines WiMAX Mesh mode, which uses Centralized Scheduling (CS), Distributed Scheduling (DS), and co-existence of CS/DS data subframes to allocate resources for data transmissions. The CS and CS/DS schemes are suitable for Internet traffic, but the lack of spatial reuse in over-pessimistic use of CS causes scalability problems and bandwidth limitations. In this paper a Hybrid...
When a content provider (CP) provides peer-to-peer live streaming service, routing decisions based on the knowledge of underlay traffic could lead to much better performance (such as user delay). On the other hand, if the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide underlay traffic information to the CP, their overall network cost due to routing inefficiencies could be reduced. There is hence incentive...
Emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies have enabled various types of content to be efficiently distributed over the Internet. Most P2P systems adopt selfish peer selection schemes in the application layer that in some sense optimize the user quality of experience. On the network side, traffic engineering (TE) is deployed by ISPs in order to achieve overall efficient network resource utilization...
Recent trends have suggested convergence to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) becoming IPv6-based. To this effect, the Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a Working Group to develop a routing protocol specification, enabling IPv6-based multi-hop WSNs. The current effort of this working group is development of a unicast routing protocol denoted RPL. RPL constructs a “DAG-like” logical structure...
The theory of a future Internet network which achieves essentially-perfect QoS guarantees for all QoS-enabled traffic flows for all loads ≤ 100% of capacity has recently been established. A scheduling algorithm with a bounded normalized service lead/lag (NSLL) is used to schedule traffic flows within the routers. An 'Application-Specific Token-Buffer Traffic Shaper' is used at the traffic sources,...
Heterogeneous wireless network (HWN) technology enables a mobile client (MC) to access multiple heterogeneous subnets for better quality of service (QoS) at a lower cost. In the context of conventional network protocol, we cannot fully utilize the potential of a HWN by having separate and independently operating subnet interfaces. In this paper, we propose a multi-MAC management scheme, performing...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) based content distribution networks (CDNs), e.g., BitTorrent, are widely used in the today's Internet. Since all peers interested in a specific content provide storage and upload capacity those CDNs facilitate a cheap and easy distribution of large amounts of data. However, they generate a lot of costs for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as normal users also act as a source for...
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