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EPSRC Reference:	GR/K39370/01
Title:	REAL-TIMEMANAGEMENT AND CONTROL FOR MULTISERVICE NETWORKS (APPLICATION FOR AN OVERSEAS RESEARCH GRANT)
Principal Investigator:	Hutchison, Professor D
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Department:	Computing & Communications
Organisation:	Lancaster University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 October 1994	Ends:	31 March 1995	Value (£):	7,920
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Networks & Distributed Systems
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The aim of the propose research, which will build on existing work at Lancaster in multimedia networking (SERC Quality of Service Architecture, and BT University Research Initiative on Management of Multiservice Networks), is to evaluate and actively contribute to the design of a real-time management of control architecture being developed by the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) at Columbia University for the XUNET-II multiservice gigabit testbed. CTR is widely considered as the leading US and International Centre for research in gigabit network management.Difficulties encountered in the management and control task of broadband networks stem primarily from the very high operating speeds (gigabit/sec services with terabit/sec aggregate throughout), large delay within the backbones, integration of services with different quality of service requirements and the large number of potential users that these networks will support. The main aims of the research are:i) to evaluate the current XUNET-II network management system at CTR and contrast it with traffic management scheme developed by the Quality of Service Architecture (QoS-A) project at Lancaster;ii) to develop traffic management and network recovery mechanisms which preserve contracted quality of service guarantees in the light of temporary and severe network service fluctuations; andiii) to inform the work of BT University Research Initiative Consortium that will be working on multiservice networks management using SuperJANET.
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