Les réseaux sans fil 802.11 sont en train d'être considérés comme étant la pierre angulaire des systèmes de communication autonomes. En permettant aux usagers de communiquer les uns avec les autres avec les stations de base fixées a des endroits bien précis par l'intermédiaire de protocoles de communication comme les protocole de routage ad hoc. Le standard IEEE 802.11 propose des spéciations pour les deux couches basses (MAC et Physique) du modelé OSI. La couche MAC (Medium Access Control) introduit deux mécanismes d'accès au médium sans fil qui sont différents l'un de l'autre. Le mécanisme DCF (accès au canal distribue ou Distributed Coordination Function), l'accès au canal s'exécute dans chaque station sans faire appel à une unité centrale. Le mécanisme PCF (Point Coordination Function), contrairement au mécanisme DCF l'accès au canal se fait à l'aide d'une unité centrale. Le mécanisme le plus utilise par la norme 802.11 est DCF vu qu'il ne nécessite pas d'infrastructure au déploiement. Pour améliorer la qualité de service dans les réseaux sans multi- sauts, cette thèse aborde cette problématique dans deux couches de la pile protocolaire, à savoir la couche routage et la couches MAC. Elle améliore le routage a QoS en utilisant le protocole de routage a état de lien optimisé (OLSR) et améliore aussi l'efficacité de l'accès au médium sans fil lors du fonctionnement de la couche MAC en mode le plus courant DCF. Pour l'amélioration de routage, nous proposons une approche basée sur le graphe de conflit pour l'estimation de la bande passante partagée entre les nœuds adjacents. Pour la couche MAC, nous proposons un nouveau schéma de Backoff nomme l'algorithme Backoff de Padovane (PBA), pour améliorer l'efficacité de l'accès au médium sans fil dans les réseaux sans fil mobiles Ad Hoc (MANETs). / IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks are considered the cornerstone of autonomous communication systems. These networks allow users to communicate with each others via base stations deployed in specic locations through a set of dedicated communication protocols like Ad Hoc routing protocols. The IEEE 802.11 standard proposes specications for both physical and MAC layers of the OSI model. MAC layer denes dierent types of access to the wireless medium as explained below. The DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) mechanism, in which the access to the medium is executed localy in each station. The PCF (Point Coordination Function) method, unlike DCF mechanism the access the medium is managed by a central unit. The most widespread mechanism among them is the DCF mode as it does not require any infrastructure deployment. To improve the Quality of Service (QoS) oered to the dierent applications in multihop wireless networks, this thesis proposes original solutions to enhance the eciency of certain protocols in two dierent layers of OSI, i.e., routing and MAC layers. More specically, our proposed solutions enable higher eciency of OLSR protocol and ensure more ecient usage of the available bandwidth through the designed Padovan based medium access scheme operating in DCF mode. The routing approach used in OLSR is improved by applying the conict graphs to acquire more accurate estimation of the bandwidth shared with the adjacent nodes. At MAC layer, the number of collisions in dense networks is signicantly reduced by designing new backo scheme dubbed Padovan Backo Algorithm (BEB).

The main aim of this thesis is to familiarize with options of services using real-time data transfer in wireless networks. Theoretical part presents wireless network based on IEEE 802.11 standard and its practical use. Large part is focuses on 802.11e standart, that provides support for quality of service in wireless networks. Furthemore this thesis deals with transport and applicaton protocols supporting multimedia streaming over computer network. Second chapter is focused on analyzing real computer network with purpose in measuring parametrs influencing quality of service such as bandwith, delay, jitter and loss. Last part deals with the design of wireless network in OPNET Modeler enviroment with focus on simulating parameters that influence quality of service.

Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit behandelt den Vergleich von QoS- und Mobilitätsmechanismen in der LTE/SAE-Architektur. Nach der Einführung in die LTE/SAE-Architektur wird dargestellt, wie die QoS und die Mobilität im Standard des 3GPP gewährleitet wird. Danach erfolgt eine Untersuchung der Technologien PMIP, Ethernet und MPLS, ob sie sich als Alternativen für die standardisierten Mechanismen eignen. In einem weiteren Kapitel wird ein eigenes Konzept zur QoS- und Mobilitätsverwaltung vorgestellt, und es erfolgen erste Betrachtungen. Abschließend wird ein Ausblick gegeben, wie das vorgestellte eigene Konzept weiter ausgebaut werden könnte.

Currently, several mature and commercial component models (for e.g. EJB, .NET, COM+) exist on the market. These technologies were designed largely for applications with business-oriented non-functional requirements such as data persistence, confidentiality, and transactional support. They provide only limited support for the development of components and applications with non-functional properties (NFPs) like QoS (e.g. throughput, response time). The integration of QoS into component infrastructure requires among other things the support of components’ QoS contract specification, negotiation, adaptation, etc. This thesis focuses on contract negotiation. For applications in which the consideration of non-functional properties (NFPs) is essential (e.g. Video-on-Demand, eCommerce), a component-based solution demands the appropriate composition of the QoS contracts specified at the different ports of the collaborating components. The ports must be properly connected so that the QoS level required by one is matched by the QoS level provided by the other. Generally, QoS contracts of components depend on run-time resources (e.g. network bandwidth, CPU time) or quality attributes to be established dynamically and are usually specified in multiple QoS-Profiles. QoS contract negotiation enables the selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts between collaborating components. In our approach, the component containers perform the contract negotiation at run-time. This thesis addresses the QoS contract negotiation problem by first modelling it as a constraint satisfaction optimization problem (CSOP). As a basis for this modelling, the provided and required QoS as well as resource demand are specified at the component level. The notion of utility is applied to select a good solution according to some negotiation goal (e.g. user’s satisfaction). We argue that performing QoS contract negotiation in multiple phases simplifies the negotiation process and makes it more efficient. Based on such classification, the thesis presents heuristic algorithms that comprise coarse-grained and fine-grained negotiations for collaborating components deployed in distributed nodes in the following scenarios: (i) single-client - single-server, (ii) multiple-clients, and (iii) multi-tier scenarios. To motivate the problem as well as to validate the proposed approach, we have examined three componentized distributed applications. These are: (i) video streaming, (ii) stock quote, and (iii) billing (to evaluate certain security properties). An experiment has been conducted to specify the QoS contracts of the collaborating components in one of the applications we studied. In a run-time system that implements our algorithm, we simulated different behaviors concerning: (i) user’s QoS requirements and preferences, (ii) resource availability conditions concerning the client, server, and network bandwidth, and (iii) the specified QoS-Profiles of the collaborating components. Under various conditions, the outcome of the negotiation confirms the claim we made with regard to obtaining a good solution.

La maitrise de la complexité croissante tant de nos organisations socioéconomiques que de nos systèmes et infrastructures technologiques, impose des systèmes informatiques de plus en plus intégrés. L’organisation de nos sociétés avancées ne pourrait plus se développer dans des conditions raisonnables sans le support des technologies de l’information. Les différents systèmes d’information s’intègrent ainsi de plus en plus en un maillage informationnel formant ainsi un système de systèmes qui se complexifie de jour en jour et de ce fait devient de plus en plus vital. Ces systèmes des systèmes doivent répondre à deux types d’objectifs : i) la réalisation d’un système par l’intégration de systèmes offerts par différents fournisseurs, ii) l’interopération de systèmes déjà en service en vue d’obtenir des propriétés nouvelles dues à leur coopération, généralement avec une augmentation d’efficacité. Ces objectifs et cette complexité ne peuvent être appréhendés par une démarche purement analytique. C’est pourquoi nous avons préconisé à travers cette thèse une solution de système de systèmes basée sur un graphe d'interopérabilité construit sur une comparaison hiérarchique ontologique. La mise en œuvre de cette approche à travers l’utilisation d’une plateforme d’agents mobile permet une recherche dynamique de services visant à satisfaire au mieux les critères de qualité exigés par l’utilisateur. / Mastering the increasing complexity of our socio-economic organizations and technology infrastructure requires more and more integrated information systems. The organization of our advanced societies could no longer grow on reasonable terms without the support of information technology.The different information systems belongs more and more to an informational meshing, forming in this way a complex system of systems which is getting complex day after day and because of that is becoming increasingly vital.This system of systems must meet two objectives: i) implementation of a system by integrating systems offered by different providers, ii) interoperation of systems already in use in order to obtain new properties due to their cooperation, usually with an efficiency increase.These objectives and this complexity can be grasped by a purely analytical approach. That is why we have advocated throughout this thesis a solution of system of systems based on an interoperability graph built on a hierarchical ontological comparison (foundation of trust). The platform of mobile agents associated with this system will implement a dynamic search of services which tries to satisfy the quality criteria required by the user.

Les réseaux sans fil 802.11 sont en train d'être considérés comme étant la pierre angulaire des systèmes de communication autonomes. En permettant aux usagers de communiquer les uns avec les autres avec les stations de base fixées a des endroits bien précis par l'intermédiaire de protocoles de communication comme les protocole de routage ad hoc. Le standard IEEE 802.11 propose des spéciations pour les deux couches basses (MAC et Physique) du modelé OSI. La couche MAC (Medium Access Control) introduit deux mécanismes d'accès au médium sans fil qui sont différents l'un de l'autre. Le mécanisme DCF (accès au canal distribue ou Distributed Coordination Function), l'accès au canal s'exécute dans chaque station sans faire appel à une unité centrale. Le mécanisme PCF (Point Coordination Function), contrairement au mécanisme DCF l'accès au canal se fait à l'aide d'une unité centrale. Le mécanisme le plus utilise par la norme 802.11 est DCF vu qu'il ne nécessite pas d'infrastructure au déploiement. Pour améliorer la qualité de service dans les réseaux sans multi- sauts, cette thèse aborde cette problématique dans deux couches de la pile protocolaire, à savoir la couche routage et la couches MAC. Elle améliore le routage a QoS en utilisant le protocole de routage a état de lien optimisé (OLSR) et améliore aussi l'efficacité de l'accès au médium sans fil lors du fonctionnement de la couche MAC en mode le plus courant DCF. Pour l'amélioration de routage, nous proposons une approche basée sur le graphe de conflit pour l'estimation de la bande passante partagée entre les nœuds adjacents. Pour la couche MAC, nous proposons un nouveau schéma de Backoff nomme l'algorithme Backoff de Padovane (PBA), pour améliorer l'efficacité de l'accès au médium sans fil dans les réseaux sans fil mobiles Ad Hoc (MANETs). / IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks are considered the cornerstone of autonomous communication systems. These networks allow users to communicate with each others via base stations deployed in specic locations through a set of dedicated communication protocols like Ad Hoc routing protocols. The IEEE 802.11 standard proposes specications for both physical and MAC layers of the OSI model. MAC layer denes dierent types of access to the wireless medium as explained below. The DCF (Distributed Coordination Function) mechanism, in which the access to the medium is executed localy in each station. The PCF (Point Coordination Function) method, unlike DCF mechanism the access the medium is managed by a central unit. The most widespread mechanism among them is the DCF mode as it does not require any infrastructure deployment. To improve the Quality of Service (QoS) oered to the dierent applications in multihop wireless networks, this thesis proposes original solutions to enhance the eciency of certain protocols in two dierent layers of OSI, i.e., routing and MAC layers. More specically, our proposed solutions enable higher eciency of OLSR protocol and ensure more ecient usage of the available bandwidth through the designed Padovan based medium access scheme operating in DCF mode. The routing approach used in OLSR is improved by applying the conict graphs to acquire more accurate estimation of the bandwidth shared with the adjacent nodes. At MAC layer, the number of collisions in dense networks is signicantly reduced by designing new backo scheme dubbed Padovan Backo Algorithm (BEB).

Progressive download video services, such as YouTube and podcasts, are responsible for a major part of the transmitted data volume in the Internet and it is expected, that they will also strongly affect mobile networks. Streaming video quality mainly depends on the sustainable throughput achieved during transmission. To ensure acceptable video quality in mobile networks (with limited capacity resources) the perceived quality by the customer (QoE) needs to be monitored by estimation. For that, the streaming video quality needs to be measured and monitored permanently. For TCP based progressive download we propose to extract the the video timestamps which are encoded within the payload of the TCP segments by decoding the video within the payload. The actual estimation is then done by play out buffer fill level calculations based on the TCP segment timestamp and their internal play out timestamp. The perceived quality for the user is derived from the number and duration of video stalls. Algorithms for decoding Flash Video, MP4 and WebM Video have already been implemented. After deriving the play out time it is compared to the timestamp of the respective TCP segment. The result of this comparison is an estimate of the fill level of the play out buffer in terms of play out time within the client. This estimation is done without access to the end device. The same measurement procedure can be applied for any TCP based progressive download Internet service. Video was simply taken as an example because of its current large share in traffic volume in operator networks.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 18-21, 2004 / Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California / In the past few years, an evolution has been occurring in test range network topologies. With the proliferation of IP-based networks at the desktop, range officers are seeking ways to extend IP-based networks to the test range, to derive the cost and operational benefits offered with IP technology. This transition is not without its own set of problems. The operational transition from the traditional, ATM-based ranges to IP-based ranges must be addressed. In many cases, it is desired to maintain the ATM range, and add IP capabilities as time and budget permits. The net result is that frequently a mixed protocol network emerges. Terawave Communications has been developing telemetry transport solutions for both ATM and IP-based networks, along with technology to enable convergence of additional services such as video, voice, and data across test ranges. Terawave has developed a solution for various network topologies from ATM-only and IP-only to mixed protocol implementations, which supports end-to-end interworking of telemetry, video, and additional services over mixed protocol networks. In this paper, Terawave will detail the implementation decisions made in the course of application development, and share a framework for enabling seamless intra- and inter- range communication of telemetry and mixed services.

Iraq may be considered as the largest wireless market in the Gulf region. A key driving factor in the market of wireless communication, it has seen enormous growth in the mobile phone market over the last five years leading to almost 24 million subscribers in 2011. Moreover, there are several technologies and services working in Iraq; three GSM Operators, three CDMA national operators and three CDMA provinces operators. The recent growth in the mobile phone market is based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) communications and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) standards creating the next-generation wireless technologies in the Iraqi Wireless Communication market. One of the essential issues of this research is to investigate the performance of the decreased Quality Of Service (QoS) caused by interferences in the services on GSM/CDMA operators in Iraq. Many issues should be studied and taken into consideration, such as; does the Multi-Coalition Forces cause the interferences, jamming, higher rate of calls drop and false ringing; or are they caused by bad design and planning? Do we need to optimise our network due to the large number of users? All these factors are investigated and the measurements of most service providers and government agencies will be gathered. A detailed analysis was included from the providers with measurements of performance and the reasons for the deterioration of wireless services. The novel contributions of this thesis is the extensive radio measurement campaign over the three mobile an CDMA operator networks and the analysis and recommendations that were drawn to suggest the best approach to improve the QoS of Wireless communication technologies. Awareness of actual reasons behind the deterioration of services will be raised to the Iraqi Government, CMC and the wireless service providers.

Managed Bandwidth Services (MBSs) use Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to effectively control traffic flows and reduce network delay. In the past, the provision of MBS in a global manufacturing enterprise was a difficult task for network administrators. However, advances in recently emerging technologies, such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS), Integrated Services (IntServ), Differentiated Services (DiffServ), and Constraint-based Routing (CBR), hold promise to make MBS implementation more manageable. QoS technologies, such as DiffServ and IntServ, offer the benefits of better application performance and delivery of reliable network service. As a consequence of network traffic loads, packet congestion and latency increases still exist and must be addressed by enterprises that intend to support an MBS solution. In this investigation, the author addressed an issue that is faced by many large manufacturing enterprises, i.e., the addition of latency and congestion sensitive traffic such as Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) to networks with limited bandwidth. The goal of this research was to provide global manufacturing enterprises with a model for bandwidth management in their offices and plants. This model was based on findings from a case study of traffic management at American Standard Companies.