Network Performance Engineering: A Handbook on Convergent Multi-Service Networks and Next Generation Internet

✍ Scribed by Adrian Popescu, Doru Constantinescu (auth.), Demetres D. Kouvatsos (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1076
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5233
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During recent years a great deal of progress has been made in performance modelling and evaluation of the Internet, towards the convergence of multi-service networks of diverging technologies, supported by internetworking and the evolution of diverse access and switching technologies. The 44 chapters presented in this handbook are revised invited works drawn from PhD courses held at recent HETNETs International Working Conferences on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks. They constitute essential introductory material preparing the reader for further research and development in the field of performance modelling, analysis and engineering of heterogeneous networks and of next and future generation Internets. The handbook aims to unify relevant material already known but dispersed in the literature, introduce the readers to unfamiliar and unexposed research areas and, generally, illustrate the diversity of research found in the high growth field of convergent heterogeneous networks and the Internet. The chapters have been broadly classified into 12 parts covering the following topics: Measurement Techniques; Traffic Modelling and Engineering; Queueing Systems and Networks; Analytic Methodologies; Simulation Techniques; Performance Evaluation Studies; Mobile, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks, Optical Networks; QoS Metrics and Algorithms; All IP Convergence and Networking; Network Management and Services; and Overlay Networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
On Kleinrock’s Independence Assumption....Pages 1-13
Application Level Measurement....Pages 14-36
Measurements and Analysis of Application-Perceived Throughput via Mobile Links....Pages 37-69
Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Traffic....Pages 70-97
Markovian Modelling of Internet Traffic....Pages 98-124
Multi-timescale Economics-Driven Traffic Management in MPLS Networks....Pages 125-140
Modelling LRD and SRD Traffic with the Batch Renewal Process: Review of Results and Open Issues....Pages 141-173
Local Area Networks and Self-similar Traffic....Pages 174-190
Characterisation of Internet Traffic in Wireless Networks....Pages 191-202
Performance Analysis of Priority Queueing Systems in Discrete Time....Pages 203-232
Queueing Networks with Blocking: Analysis, Solution Algorithms and Properties....Pages 233-257
Switching Queueing Networks....Pages 258-283
Principles of Fairness Quantification in Queueing Systems....Pages 284-300
Large Deviations Theory: Basic Principles and Applications to Communication Networks....Pages 301-330
Analysis of Non-product Form Parallel Queues Using Markovian Process Algebra....Pages 331-342
Product-Form Solution in PEPA via the Reversed Process....Pages 343-356
Generalised Entropy Maximisation and Queues with Bursty and/or Heavy Tails....Pages 357-392
Stochastic Ordering of Semi-Markov Processes....Pages 393-422
Spectral Expansion Solutions for Markov-Modulated Queues....Pages 423-446
Diffusion Approximation as a Modelling Tool....Pages 447-476
Cross Layer Simulation: Application to Performance Modelling of Networks Composed of MANETs and Satellites....Pages 477-508
The Rare Event Simulation Method RESTART: Efficiency Analysis and Guidelines for Its Application....Pages 509-547
An Algebraic Multigrid Solution of Large Hierarchical Markovian Models Arising in Web Information Retrieval....Pages 548-570
An Introduction to Modelling and Performance Evaluation for TCP Networks....Pages 571-593
Performance Modelling and Evaluation of a Mobility Management Mechanism in IMS-Based Networks....Pages 594-611
Generalized QBD Processes, Spectral Expansion and Performance Modeling Applications....Pages 612-641
Some New Markovian Models for Traffic and Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Networks....Pages 642-664
Modelling and Analysis of a Dynamic Guard Channel Handover Scheme with Heterogeneous Call Arrival Processes....Pages 665-681
On the Performance Modelling and Optimisation of DOCSIS HFC Networks....Pages 682-715
Mobility Models for Mobility Management....Pages 716-745
Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: An Overview....Pages 746-766
Broadcasting Methods in MANETS: An Overview....Pages 767-783
ROMA: A Middleware Framework for Seamless Handover....Pages 784-794
Seamless Roaming: Developments and Challenges....Pages 795-807
Optical Metropolitan Networks: Packet Format, MAC Protocols and Quality of Service....Pages 808-834
Performance of Multicast Packet Aggregation in All Optical Slotted Networks....Pages 835-858
Performance Modelling and Traffic Characterisation of Optical Networks....Pages 859-890
The Search for QoS in Data Networks: A Statistical Approach....Pages 891-920
Transform-Domain Analysis of Packet Delay in Network Nodes with QoS-Aware Scheduling....Pages 921-950
IP Networking and Future Evolution....Pages 951-978
Content Distribution over IP: Developments and Challenges....Pages 979-987
Implementation and Evaluation of Network Intrusion Detection Systems....Pages 988-1016
Unicast QoS Routing in Overlay Networks....Pages 1017-1038
Overlay Networks and Graph Theoretic Concepts....Pages 1039-1054
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general