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An Architectural Model to Provide QoS in a Home Network and Its Evaluation in a Real Testbed: Home networks are an evolution of office local area networks, answering the need for residential distribution of broadband services. The design of a home network must strive to keep low costs, easy installation and maintenance while at the same time providing a large variety of services, from voice and data...; Tags: QoS, Network, Home Network, Academy Publisher, Networking; White papers 2008-06-01
Wireless Sensor Network for Wearable Physiological Monitoring: Wearable physiological monitoring system consists of an array of sensors embedded into the fabric of the wearer to continuously monitor the physiological parameters and transmit wireless to a remote monitoring station. At the remote monitoring station the data is correlated to study the overall health status of the wearer. In...; Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Monitoring, Wireless, Academy Publisher; White papers 2008-05-01
Process Variation Aware Transistor Sizing for Load Balance of Multiple Paths in Dynamic CMOS for Timing Optimization: The complexity in timing optimization of high-performance microprocessors has been increasing with the number of channel-connected transistors in various paths of dynamic CMOS circuits and the rising magnitude of process variations in nanometer CMOS process. In this paper, a process variation aware transistor sizing algorithm for dynamic CMOS circuits while...; Tags: Aware, Optimization, Transistor, CMOS, Academy Publisher, Optimization Algorithm, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2008-02-01
Time Slot Assignment for Maximum Bandwidth in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network: Time slot assignment is essential to provide the calculated bandwidth in a TDMA Time Division Multiple Access-based Mobile Ad hoc NETwork MANET, which is a focus of attention of this paper because of its collision-free packet transmission with QoS Quality of Service support. A new time slot assignment algorithm-SAGO Slot...; Tags: Bandwidth, Mobile, Assignment, Academy Publisher, SAGO, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2007-11-01
Model-Driven Engineering for Early QoS Validation of Component-Based Software Systems: Model-Driven Engineering MDE techniques are increasingly being used to address many of the development and operational lifecycle concerns of large-scale component-based systems. One such concern that is growing in importance, but lacking significant research is the validation of Quality-of-Service QoS properties of component-based systems throughout their development lifecycle. In the...; Tags: Software, QoS, Academy Publisher; White papers 2007-09-01

Enhanced Security Strategies for MPLS Signaling: In an increasingly hostile environment, the need for security in network infrastructure is stronger than ever, especially for Multi-Protocol Label Switching MPLS, widely used to provide most of the new-generation network infrastructure-level services in the Internet. Unfortunately, the MPLS control plane lacks scalable verification for the authenticity and legitimacy of...; Tags: MPLS, Security Strategy, Academy Publisher, Network Technology, Networking, Security; White papers 2007-09-01
A Multiple LSPs Approach to Secure Data in MPLS Networks: MPLS security is an evolving issue which has been raised by many researchers and service providers. The basic architecture of MPLS network does not provide security services such as encryption. Therefore, MPLS does not protect the confidentiality of data transmitted. This paper provides a mechanism to enhance the security in...; Tags: Security, MPLS, Academy Publisher, MPLS Security, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-08-01
Alternatives for In-Service BER Estimation in All-Optical Networks: Towards Minimum Intrusion: Combining the existing approaches for optical intelligence and the speed and capacity of light is undoubtedly the only viable strategy for building future-proof, high-speed networks. Future optical networks are also expected to provide added value through service quality. However, the performance parameters included in current Service Level Agreements SLA require...; Tags: Parameter, SLA, Network, Monitoring, Intrusion, Academy Publisher, Future Optical Network, Service Level Management, Performance Management, Networking, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-05-01
Automatic Provisioning of QoS Aware OSPF Configurations: This paper presents a contribution for the development of network management tools able to automatically provide QoS aware routing configurations. In this perspective, a traffic engineering framework able to provide near-optimal OSPF configurations is presented. The devised solution takes into account the multiconstrained QoS demands of a given network domain...; Tags: QoS, Provisioning, Open Shortest Path First, Configuration, Academy Publisher, Networking; White papers 2007-04-01
Scalable Video Streaming Traffic Delivery in IP/UMTS Networking Environments: The paper discusses the end-to-end QoS provisioning for scalable video streaming traffic delivery over heterogeneous IP/UMTS networks. A prototype architecture is proposed, and is further validated, that explores the joint use of packet prioritization and Scalable Video Coding SVC together with the appropriate mapping of UMTS traffic classes to the...; Tags: UMTS, Network, Streaming Video, IP, Academy Publisher, Web Site Development, Cellular Phones, Web Technology, Digital Video, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2007-04-01
Using Virtualization to Provide Interdomain QoS-Enabled Routing: The most important aspect related with the Internet architecture is its ossification representing the difficulties to introduce evolutions in the architecture as a way to meet the demands posed by the new requirements as mobility, security, heterogeneity, etc. This paper discusses how the network virtualization can be used to support...; Tags: QoS, Academy Publisher, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2007-04-01
Signalling Cases and QoS Management Within TISPAN NGN Residential Environments: The TISPAN group from ETSI is currently working on the specification a Next Generation Network NGN, based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS as the service control architecture. This NGN provides a extensible platform that supports the delivering of next generation multimedia services with QoS requirements over multiple access network...; Tags: Multimedia, QoS, Academy Publisher; White papers 2007-04-01
An Adaptive Gateway Discovery Algorithm to Support QoS When Providing Internet Access to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: When a node in an ad hoc network wants Internet access, it needs to obtain information about the available gateways and it should select the most appropriate of them. This paper proposes a new gateway discovery scheme suitable for real-time applications that adjusts the frequency of gateway advertisements dynamically. This...; Tags: Algorithm, Internet Access, QoS, Gateway Inc., Mobile, Academy Publisher; White papers 2007-04-01
Control Mechanism for QoS Guaranteed Multicast Service in OVPN Over IP/GMPLS Over DWDM: OVPN over IP/GMPLS over DWDM technology with QoS assurances is considered as a promising approach for the next generation OVPN. This paper suggests a multicast OLSP Optical Label Switched Path establishment mechanism for supporting high bandwidth multicast services in OVPN over IP/GMPLS over DWDM. For the establishment of the multicast...; Tags: QoS, DWDM, Academy Publisher, OVPN, Optical Networking, Networking; White papers 2007-01-01
Distributed Algorithms for Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning in Communication Networks: Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service QoS networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. This paper...; Tags: Bandwidth, QoS, Network, Provisioning, Academy Publisher, Resource Provisioning Algorithm; White papers 2006-11-01
Using Firewalls to Enforce Enterprise-Wide Policies Over Standard Client-Server Interactions: This paper proposes and evaluates a novel framework for enforcing global coordination and control policies over message passing software components in enterprise computing environments. This framework combines the use of firewalls, both per-node software and dedicated firewalls, with an existing coordination and control system to enforce policies that, among other...; Tags: Software, Coordination, Client-server, Policy, Academy Publisher, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2006-10-01
On the Analysis of Mobility Mechanisms in Micro Mobile MPLS Access Networks: This paper proposes a new micro-mobility management scheme, called Micro Mobile MPLS that supports both mobility and Quality-of-Service QoS management in wireless networks. The proposal includes two protocol variants. In the first variant, called FH-Micro Mobile MPLS, they consider the Fast Handoff FH mechanism, which anticipates the LSP (Label Switched...; Tags: Mobile, Variant, Mobility, Analysis, Academy Publisher; White papers 2006-09-01
Bandwidth Allocation and Session Scheduling Using SIP: Session Initiation Protocol SIP is a new signaling protocol designed to establish multimedia sessions in telecommunication networks. This paper suggests the extension of SIP functionalities to coordinate QoS mechanisms deployed in IP networks, and especially in DiffServ domain. Indeed, the interaction between small and big TCP sessions may have dramatic...; Tags: SIP, Bandwidth, Allocation, Session, Academy Publisher, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Tcp/Ip, Networking, Emerging Technologies; White papers 2006-08-01
Issues in the Usage of MANETs as Backup or Load-Balancing Transit Networks of the Internet: Internetworking the Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks MANETs with the Internet has been a hot issue for many years. However, most researches have been concentrated on the use of MANETs as the access networks for the Internet. This paper introduces another use of MANETs: backup or load-balancing transit networks for the Internet....; Tags: Network, Load Balancing, Academy Publisher, MANET, Internet, Backups, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-05-01
QoS Routing With Bandwidth and Hop-Count Consideration: A Performance Perspective: QoS Routing has been studied to provide evidence that it can increase network utilization compared to routing that is insensitive to QoS traffic requirements. However, because of its complexity, QoS routing is still the missing piece in a fully-fledged QoS architecture for the Internet. This paper exposes in detail the...; Tags: Bandwidth, QoS, Performance, Network, Academy Publisher, QoS Routing; White papers 2006-05-01