The issue of converged networks is to ensure the sufficient quality of services along the entire length of the communication transmission. This issue is closely connected to the real-time services, such as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and videoconferencing. These services require strict adherence to quality parameters, otherwise their function is not guaranteed. This problem particulary resolves subsystem IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), which concluded on the basis of user profiles can provide the required quality of service. Therefore the theoretical part deals with the description of the structure of the system and protocols designed to signal the network. Various mechanisms to support quality of services in access and backbone networks are also described. The following section explains the principle of provision of quality requirements of end-user networks. In the practical part is this theoretical knowledge used for designing and configuration of the network consisting of various technologies. The resulting model is then simulated in Opnet Modeler program, which is used for designing and testing of packet networks. Each simulation shows the effect of mapping quality requirements in the different access network on technologies, which are supported in the backbone. The outcome of this work is detailed network analysis and comparison of mechanisms for implementing quality of service. The conclusion summarises all simulation outcomes.

Techn. University, Diss., 2004--Darmstadt. / Dateien im PDF-Format.

The doctoral thesis is focused on a research in the area of the quality-of-service support technologies in data networks. The current modern communication networks cannot operate correctly without an effective tool allowing differentiated treatment for various network traffic classes. Looking at the current trends in this area it turns out that the technology of Differentiated services is currently the most widely used mechanism for QoS assurance in data networks. The major part of this doctoral thesis concerns the design of a novel QoS system which offers a solution for one of the main problems of DiffServ technology. This disadvantage lies in the missing cooperation between the end station and edge node of the DiffServ domain. To overcome this limitation the system proposed introduces an improvement which enables the user application to actively participate in the resource reservation process by direct configuration of the DSCP value in the IP header of its own packets. This functionality is based on the identification of DiffServ configuration parameters available in the edge router. To retrieve the information required from network component the well-known SNMP protocol has been chosen, which has direct access to the components’s configuration stored in the MIB database. On the basis of this theoretical proposal several simulation scenarios have been created and analysed. The results show that the system designed presents an efficient solution for the mentioned problem of DiffServ. They also give good assumptions for the successful implementation of this system into a real environment.

The exponential growth of Internet applications has created new challenges for the control and administration of large-scale networks, which consist of heterogeneous elements under dynamically changing traffic conditions. These emerging applications need guaranteed service levels, beyond those supported by best-effort networks, to deliver the intended services to the end user. Several models have been proposed for a Quality of Service (QoS) framework that can provide the means to transport these services. It is desirable to find efficient routing strategies that can meet the strict routing requirements of these applications. QoS routing is considered as one of the major components of the QoS framework in communication networks. In QoS routing, paths are selected based upon the knowledge of resource availability at network nodes and the QoS requirements of traffic. Several QoS routing schemes have been proposed that differ in the way they gather information about the network state and the way they select paths based on this information. The biggest downside of current QoS routing schemes is the frequent maintenance and distribution of global state information across the network, which imposes huge communication and processing overheads. Consequently, scalability is a major issue in designing efficient QoS routing algorithms, due to the high costs of the associated overheads. Moreover, inaccuracy and staleness of global state information is another problem that is caused by relatively long update intervals, which can significantly deteriorate routing performance. Localized QoS routing, where source nodes take routing decisions based solely on statistics collected locally, was proposed relatively recently as a viable alternative to global QoS routing. It has shown promising results in achieving good routing performance, while at the same time eliminating many scalability related problems. In localized QoS routing each source-destination pair needs to determine a set of candidate paths from which a path will be selected to route incoming flows. The goal of this thesis is to enhance the scalability of QoS routing by investigating and developing new models and algorithms based on the localized QoS routing approach. For this thesis, we have extensively studied the localized QoS routing approach and demonstrated that it can achieve a higher routing performance with lower overheads than global QoS routing schemes. Existing localized routing algorithms, Proportional Sticky Routing (PSR) and Credit-Based Routing (CBR), use the blocking probability of candidate paths as the criterion for selecting routing paths based on either flow proportions or a crediting mechanism, respectively. Routing based on the blocking probability of candidate paths may not always reflect the most accurate state of the network. This has motivated the search for alternative localized routing algorithms and to this end we have made the following contributions. First, three localized bandwidth-constrained QoS routing algorithms have been proposed, two are based on a source routing strategy and the third is based on a distributed routing strategy. All algorithms utilize the quality of links rather than the quality of paths in order to make routing decisions. Second, a dynamic precautionary mechanism was used with the proposed algorithms to prevent candidate paths from reaching critical quality levels. Third, a localized delay-constrained QoS routing algorithm was proposed to provide routing with an end-to-end delay guarantee. We compared the performance of the proposed localized QoS routing algorithms with other localized and global QoS routing algorithms under different network topologies and different traffic conditions. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms outperform the other algorithms in terms of routing performance, resource balancing and have superior computational complexity and scalability features.

The exponential growth of Internet applications has created new challenges for the control and administration of large-scale networks, which consist of heterogeneous elements under dynamically changing traffic conditions. These emerging applications need guaranteed service levels, beyond those supported by best-effort networks, to deliver the intended services to the end user. Several models have been proposed for a Quality of Service (QoS) framework that can provide the means to transport these services. It is desirable to find efficient routing strategies that can meet the strict routing requirements of these applications. QoS routing is considered as one of the major components of the QoS framework in communication networks. In QoS routing, paths are selected based upon the knowledge of resource availability at network nodes and the QoS requirements of traffic. Several QoS routing schemes have been proposed that differ in the way they gather information about the network state and the way they select paths based on this information. The biggest downside of current QoS routing schemes is the frequent maintenance and distribution of global state information across the network, which imposes huge communication and processing overheads. Consequently, scalability is a major issue in designing efficient QoS routing algorithms, due to the high costs of the associated overheads. Moreover, inaccuracy and staleness of global state information is another problem that is caused by relatively long update intervals, which can significantly deteriorate routing performance. Localized QoS routing, where source nodes take routing decisions based solely on statistics collected locally, was proposed relatively recently as a viable alternative to global QoS routing. It has shown promising results in achieving good routing performance, while at the same time eliminating many scalability related problems. In localized QoS routing each source¿destination pair needs to determine a set of candidate paths from which a path will be selected to route incoming flows. The goal of this thesis is to enhance the scalability of QoS routing by investigating and developing new models and algorithms based on the localized QoS routing approach. For this thesis, we have extensively studied the localized QoS routing approach and demonstrated that it can achieve a higher routing performance with lower overheads than global QoS routing schemes. Existing localized routing algorithms, Proportional Sticky Routing (PSR) and Credit-Based Routing (CBR), use the blocking probability of candidate paths as the criterion for selecting routing paths based on either flow proportions or a crediting mechanism, respectively. Routing based on the blocking probability of candidate paths may not always reflect the most accurate state of the network. This has motivated the search for alternative localized routing algorithms and to this end we have made the following contributions. First, three localized bandwidth-constrained QoS routing algorithms have been proposed, two are based on a source routing strategy and the third is based on a distributed routing strategy. All algorithms utilize the quality of links rather than the quality of paths in order to make routing decisions. Second, a dynamic precautionary mechanism was used with the proposed algorithms to prevent candidate paths from reaching critical quality levels. Third, a localized delay-constrained QoS routing algorithm was proposed to provide routing with an end-to-end delay guarantee. We compared the performance of the proposed localized QoS routing algorithms with other localized and global QoS routing algorithms under different network topologies and different traffic conditions. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms outperform the other algorithms in terms of routing performance, resource balancing and have superior computational complexity and scalability features. / Umm AlQura University, Saudi Arabia

Ces dernières années, les évolutions de linformatique et des télécommunications ont conduit à une modification drastique du paysage de la communication informatique, et en conséquence de lInternet et de ses services : les applications sont désormais à la fois multimédias, multi utilisateurs et coopératives ; les technologies réseaux offrent à présent de hauts débits de transmission, à échelle locale ou grande distance, et permettent de se connecter à lInternet via différents types de terminaux et de points daccès, filaires ou sans fil. En dépit de ces avancées, les services de communication offerts par lInternet sont encore très insuffisants, en ceci quils noffrent aucune garantie sur les performances offertes, notamment en termes de délai de bout en bout. Cest dans cette problématique que sinscrivent nos travaux, qui adressent le besoin de nouveaux services, protocoles et architectures de communication pour lInternet, dans le but doffrir des garanties de Qualité de Service (QdS). Notre démarche part dune expression formelle des besoins applicatifs et aboutit à des solutions de bout en bout visant à : (1) intégrer les niveaux considérés (Application, Transport et IP) ; (2) minimiser lutilisation des ressources (bande passante, buffer, &) ; et (3) abstraire le niveau applicatif de la complexité du choix et du paramétrage des services sous-jacents. Trois thèmes de recherche sont explorés : (1) les services et protocoles de Transport multimédia pour optimiser la QdS dans un contexte IP de type Best Effort ; (2) les architectures de bout en bout pour garantir la QdS, en coordonnant les nouveaux services de lInternet aux niveaux Transport et IP (IntServ et DiffServ mono puis multi domaines) ; et (3) la signalisation pour la QdS, dans un contexte IP de type DiffServ multi domaines. Notre prospective concerne dune part la signalisation pour la QdS en considérant à présent lhétérogénéité de lInternet multi domaines, et dautre part, les protocoles de Transp ort auto configurables et les architectures dynamiques, pour optimiser la qualité des communications et des coopérations dans les futurs réseaux ambiants (réseaux mobiles et ad hoc, capteurs, &) en tenant compte dune dynamicité du contexte à la fois au niveau utilisateur, mobile et coopérant, et au niveau du réseau, mobile et aux ressources variables. null null