The Quality of Service (QoS) routing approach is gaining an increasing interest in the Internet community due to the new emerging Internet applications such as real-time multimedia applications. These applications require better levels of quality of services than those supported by best effort networks. Therefore providing such services is crucial to many real time and multimedia applications which have strict quality of service requirements regarding bandwidth and timeliness of delivery. QoS routing is a major component in any QoS architecture and thus has been studied extensively in the literature. Scalability is considered one of the major issues in designing efficient QoS routing algorithms due to the high cost of QoS routing both in terms of computational effort and communication overhead. Localized quality of service routing is a promising approach to overcome the scalability problem of the conventional quality of service routing approach. The localized quality of service approach eliminates the communication overhead because it does not need the global network state information. The main aim of this thesis is to contribute towards the localised routing area by proposing and developing some new models and algorithms. Toward this goal we make the following major contributions. First, a scalable and efficient QoS routing algorithm based on a localised approach to QoS routing has been developed and evaluated. Second, we have developed a path selection technique that can be used with existing localized QoS routing algorithms to enhance their scalability and performance. Third, a scalable and efficient hierarchical QoS routing algorithm based on a localised approach to QoS routing has been developed and evaluated.

Le projet SoC-Trace a pour objectif le développement d'un ensemble de méthodes et d'outils basés sur les traces d'éxécution d'applications embarquées multicoeur afin de répondre aux besoins croissants d'observabilité et de 'débogabilité' requis par l'industrie. Le projet vise en particulier le développement de nouvelles méthodes d'analyse, s'appuyant sur différentes techniques d'analyse de données telles que l'analyse probabiliste, la fouille de données, et l'agrégation de données. Elles devraient permettre l'identification automatique d'anomalies,l'analyse des corrélations et dépendances complexes entre plusieurs composants d'une application embarquées ainsi que la maîtrise du volume important des traces qui peut désormais dépasser le GigaOctet. L'objectif de la thèse est de fournir une représentation de haut niveau des informations contenues dans les traces, basée sur la sémantique. Il s'agira dans un premier temps de développer un outil efficace de comparaison entre traces;de définir une distance démantique adaptée aux traces, puis dans un second temps d'analyser et d'interpréter les résultats des comparaisons de traces en se basant sur la distance définie. / The SoC-Trace project aims to develop a set of methods and tools based on execution traces of multicore embedded applications to meet the growing needs of observability and 'débogability' required by the industry. The project aims in particular the development of new analytical methods, based on different data analysis techniques such as probabilistic analysis, data mining, and data aggregation. They should allow the automatic identification of anomalies, the analysis of complex correlations and dependencies between different components of an embedded application and control of the volume traces that can now exceed the gigabyte. The aim of the thesis is to provide a high-level representation of information in the trace based semantics. It will initially develop an effective tool for comparing traces, to define a semantic distance for execution traces, then a second time to analyze and interpret the results of comparisons of traces based on the defined distance.