| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S01658/01 |
| Title: |
Stochastic Analysis of Congestion Control for Internet Traffic with Quality of Service Constraints |
| Principal Investigator: |
Awan, Professor I |
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Computing |
| Organisation: |
University of Bradford |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
12 February 2003 |
Ends: |
11 May 2006 |
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115,381
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| Networks & Distributed Systems |
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The enormous growth in the Internet presents today a major challenge to the research community in the field of performance modelling. The advent of faster workstations, client server distributed computing and bandwidth demanding applications has resulted In an Internet traffic explosion which at present is well beyond the switching capacity of the Internet Protocol (IP) routers. As a consequence, network managers and users are facing increasing congestion control problems and poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) for multimedia applications. Performance modelling using analytical models and quantitative analysis techniques are crucial to the understanding and development of efficient and reliable congestion control mechanisms for Internet traffic, yet these appear to have been neglected in the literature, with most studies relying on simulations. The main purpose of this project is to rectify this situation and develop novel analytical performance models for the analysis of congestion control in Internet traffic. These models will be validated by simulation and then used to analyse a new and generalised form of the RED congestion control mechanism. The analysis will specifically focus on traffic scenarios for which performance results are difficult to capture and quantify using simulations, such as for traffic that has correlated inter-arrival times and is busty.
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http://www.brad.ac.uk |