Thesis (M. App. Sc.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-111). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M. App. Sc.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-87). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Xu, Jun; Committee Member: Ammar, Mostafa; Committee Member: Feamster, Nick; Committee Member: Ma, Xiaoli; Committee Member: Zegura, Ellen.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-243). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. Yi Pan, committee chair; Anu G. Bourgeois, A. P. Preethy, committee members. Electronic text (84 p. : i;;. (some col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 2, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).

Detta examensarbete har utförts på Vattenfall Eldistribution AB i Trollhättan och syftar till att beräkna förlustförändringarna i lågspänningsnätet då mikroproduktion i form av solceller ansluts. Genom att ansluta mikroproduktion i lågspänningsnätet kan nätets energiförluster reduceras. Denna reducering samt den energi som inte behöver överföras från överliggande nät anses vara den nätnytta solceller ger upphov till. Samtliga elproducenter som är anslutna till elnätet har rätt till ersättning för nätnytta uppkommen av produktionen. Ersättningen skall baseras på inmatad energi samt vid vilken tidpunkt inmatningen sker. För mikroproducenter är det svårt att motivera att i varje enskilt fall beräkna nätnyttan, varför ett generellt schablonvärde beräknats för Vattenfalls lågspänningsnät. Beräkningen har utförts utifrån uppmätta sol- och lastdata på sex olika lågspänningsnät vilka tillsammans anses representera ett generellt nät. Resultaten visar att mikroproduktion med solceller generellt ger upphov till förlustminskningar motsvarande 2,51 % av varje inmatad kWh under låglasttid och 4,82 % under höglasttid. / This bachelor’s thesis aims to investigate how photovoltaic micro production alters energy losses in the Swedish low voltage grid. The thesis has been composed in collaboration with Vattenfall Eldistribution AB. By connecting micro production to the low voltage distribution network, the grid energy losses may be reduced. Additionally, less energy needs to be transferred from the overlying network. These two features are considered the network performance improvements that apply to photovoltaics. All producers connected to the grid are entitled to economic compensation due to network performance improvements caused by the production. The compensation shall be based on the amount of energy fed in as well as on the time when this happens. Regarding micro producers, it is hard to motivate separate calculations for each producer. Therefore, a general value of loss alteration applicable to the low voltage grid has been calculated. The calculations have been based on actual sun radiation and load data and have been carried out for six different low voltage grids. Combined, these six networks are regarded representative for the Swedish low voltage grid. The result of the calculations state that photovoltaic micro production will reduce the grid energy losses by 2.51 % of each fed in kWh during low load time and by 4.82 % during high load time.

The aim of the study is to investigate what impact the use of VPN has on network performance. An empirical investigation using quantitative research methods was carried out. Two sample scenarios were involved in the study: scenario without VPN and scenario with VPN. In both scenarios, three applications were used in turns, an HTTP, an FTP, and a CBR. FTP was configured to use window size and packet size, while CBR used connection rate and packet size. On the other side, the number of connection was the only parameter used for HTTP. These applications were injected in a 100 Mbps fixed link of an NS2 simulation environment. Throughput and delay averages were measured respectively for the two scenarios and values compared using Student’s t-test. While the TCP and HTTP throughputs were found decreasing, the UDP throughput was not affected by the presence of this VPN. Concerning the delay; the TCP, UDP and HTTP delay were found increasing. / Electrical Engineering / M. Tech. (Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems))

Currently, user satisfaction is becoming one of the major concerns for the service provider in accommodating user demand. This paper evaluates the user’s perception (Quality of Experience, QoE) of the increasing and decreasing response times (Quality of Service, QoS), in particular a login to web login page by the implementation of Mean Opinion Score (MOS). By comparing the results to user perception of web login performance, we show that the users perceive web login for increasing and decreasing RTs in different ways. So, we conduct interview among specific users applying increased and decreased RTs in particular web login to rank the users satisfaction level. Study of the two results for RTs of the web login page is presented.

This report covers one of the most demanding issues of network users i.e. network testing. Network testing in this study is about performance evaluation of networks, by putting traffic load gradually to determine the queuing delay for different traffics. Testing of such operations is becoming complex and necessary due to use of real time applications such as voice and video traffic, parallel to elastic data of ordinary applications over WAN links. Huge size elastic data occupies almost 80% resources and causes delay for time sensitive traffic. Performance parameters like service outage, delay, packet loss and jitter are tested to assure the reliability factor of provided Quality of Service (QoS) in the Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Normally these network services are tested after deployment of physical networks. In this case most of the time customers have to experience unavailability (outage) of network services due to increased levels of load and stress. According to user-centric point of view these outages are violation and must be avoided by the net-centric end. In order to meet these challenges network SLAs are tested on simulators in lab environment. This study provides a solution for this problem in a form of testbed simulator named Combinatorial TestBed Simulator (CTBS). Prototype of this simulator is developed for conducting experiment. It provides a systematic approach of combinatorial structures for finding such traffic patterns that exceeds the limit of queuing delay, committed in SLAs. Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that deals with discrete and normally finite elements. In the design of CTBS, technique of combinatorics is used to generate a variety of test data that cannot be generated manually for testing the given network scenario. To validate the design of CTBS, results obtained by pilot runs are compared with the results calculated using timeline. After validation of CTBS design, actual experiment is conducted to determine the set of traffic patterns that exceeds the threshold value of queuing delay for Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) traffic. / 14:36 Folkparksvagan Ronneby 372 40 Sweden

Security on the Internet is essential to ensure the privacy of an individual. Today, Trans- port Layer Security (TLS) and certificates are used to ensure this. But certificates are not enough in order to maintain confidentiality and therefore a new concept, Certificate Trans- parency (CT), has been introduced. CT improves security by allowing the analysis of sus- picious certificates. Validation by CT uses public logs that can return Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT), which is a promise returned by the log indicating that the certificate will be added to the log. A server may then deliver the SCT to a client in three different ways: X.509v3 extension, Online Certificate Status Protocol (OSCP) stapling and TLS extension. For further analysis, we have created a tool to collect data during TLS handshakes and data transfer, including byte information, the certificates themselves, SCT delivery method and especially timing information. From our dataset we see that most websites do not use CT and the ones that use CT almost only use X.509 extension to send their SCTs.