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The increasing demand of mobile applications has brought large amount of mobile traffic. To meet users' requirements for high-quality video delivery, it is an urgent task to provide fair-quality video delivery for various users and situations. In this paper, we evaluate QoS and QoE characteristics and validate QoE unfriendliness in heterogeneous DASH contents distributions to provide QoE-fair video...
In wireless Ad hoc networks, congestion occurs frequently at intermediate nodes when forwarding data packets between source-destination pairs. This traffic incurs higher packet loss, longer transmission delay, and faster energy resources depletion, thus degrades the performance of the network. This paper analyzes the performance of our hybrid Multipath Battery and Queue-Aware OLSR routing protocol...
Service Assurance (SA) is a significant part of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to enable automated and efficient service delivery from end to end (E2E). In NFV, SA should be integrated into the design and development loop from the beginning. However, it sees slower pace than other NFV management and orchestration (MANO) components. Most of present NFV-SA solutions are partial and do not provide...
We describe a “crowd measurement” project, referred to as PoQeMoN, whose main objective is to identify Quality of Service (QoS) indicators in order to predict the Quality of Experience (QoE) for HTTP YouTube content on mobile networks. Results are based on experiments on an operational network. The second contribution of this paper is to show that the proposed indicator is easy to implement in order...
Network Function Virtualization is an emerging paradigm to allow the creation, at software level, of complex network services by composing simpler ones. However, this paradigm shift exposes network services to faults and bottlenecks in the complex software virtualization infrastructure they rely on. Thus, NFV services require effective anomaly detection systems to detect the occurrence of network...
In a wireless ad hoc multimedia network, how does the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the user affect the level of Situational Awareness (SA)? Is maximum QoE necessary for high SA? In this empirical study, we propose a novel measurement approach to quantify SA based on the QoE of the user. The relationship between QoE and network Quality of Service (QoS) metrics such as delay and packet loss is well...
In telecommunication networks resilience intuitively refers to cycles and their lengths. More specifically, considering that the shortest cycle involving each pair of nodes in the network can be disassembled into two disjoint paths, a working path and a backup path, the average of the shortest cycles involving each pair of nodes in the network can be considered as an indicative of resilience. In turn,...
As demands on new software increase, new approaches are needed to help developers ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for their offered service. In this paper we present a QoS modeling approach that complements and extends the standard microservice and component-based software engineering tools by giving the software engineer information on what Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and quality constraints...
Virtualization technologies allow cloud providers to optimize server utilization and cost by co-locating services in as few servers as possible. Studies have shown how applications in multi-tenant environments are susceptible to systems anomalies such as abnormal resource usage due to performance interference. Effective detection of such anomalies requires techniques that can adapt autonomously with...
Software systems with quality of service (QoS), such as database management systems and web servers, are ubiquitous. Such systems must meet strict performance requirements. Instrumentation is a useful technique for the analysis and debugging of QoS systems. Dynamic binary instrumentation (DBI) extracts runtime information to comprehend system's behavior and detect performance bottlenecks. However,...
The usage of the service selection approaches across different dynamic service provisioning environments has increased the challenges associated with an effective method that can be used to select a relevant service. The use of service selection approach should depend on certain factors. In order to address this challenge, the literature analysis is conducted on various service selection approaches...
Mobile ad hoc mesh networks can involve a highly dynamic routing topology, characterized by rapidly changing link qualities. Existing routing protocols under-perform in this environment, yet this is precisely the situation faced by highly mobile robots operating without access to existing network infrastructure. We develop an outage probability estimation framework to compute a link quality metric...
Performance is one of the main aspects that should be taken into consideration during the design, development, tuning and optimisation of computer networks supported by cloud computing platforms (CCPs). Queueing network models (QNMs) of CCPs constitute essential quantitative tools of investigation towards identifying acceptable levels of quality-of-service (QoS), whether for upgrading an existing...
The paper deals with the contact center modeling with emphasis on the optimal number of agents. The contact center belongs to the queueing systems and its mathematical model can be described by various important parameters. The Erlang C formula tends to be suitable tool for the modeling of QoS parameters of contact centers. In our paper, we propose two parameters: downtime and administrative task...
Cloud environments are criticized for their volatility in performance aspects, making it extremely difficult for time- critical applications owners to perform the decisive step for migration and owners of SaaS to present performance vs cost tradeoffs to their customers when acting as IaaS customers. The aim of this work is to present an architectural approach based on which a)IaaS providers may enhance...
One of the main challenges in delivering end-toend service chains across multiple Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) domains is to achieve unified management and orchestration functions. A very critical aspect is the definition of an open, vendoragnostic, and interoperable northbound interface (NBI) that should be as abstracted as possible from domain-specific...
We use statistical learning to estimate end-to-end QoS metrics from device statistics, collected from a server cluster and an OpenFlow network. The results from our testbed, which runs a video-on-demand service and a key-value store, demonstrate that the learned models can estimate QoS metrics like frame rate or response time with errors bellow 10% for a given client. Interestingly, we find that service-level...
In the last years, networking scenarios have been evolving, hand-in-hand with new and varied applications with heterogeneous Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. These requirements must be efficiently and effectively delivered. Given its static layered structure and almost complete lack of built-in QoS support, the current TCP/IP-based Internet hinders such an evolution. In contrast, the clean-slate...
Fifth generation mobile communication (5G) networks promise lower latency, higher traffic volume and data rates compared to what we see nowadays. Among all technologies, Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) techniques over the cloud-enabled radio systems play an important role to enable resource pooling, scalability, layer interworking and spectral efficiency...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an innovative approach to provisioning and delivering QoS (Quality of Service) services, yet it is still devoid of context-differentiating services. In this paper we propose a network application (Autonomic QoS Broker) and a controller module that implements the OpenVSwitch Database Management Protocol (OVSDB). These two components were implemented and validated...
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