Thèse de doctorat--Électronique et communications--Paris--ENST, 2007. / Bibliogr. p. 145-153. Glossaire. Résumé.

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-153). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2005. / Thesis Advisor(s): John C. McEachen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53). Also available online.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / The performance of network management tools for SONET/SDH networks subject to the load conditions is studied and discussed in this thesis. Specifically, a SONET network which consists of four CISCO ONS 15454s, managed by a CISCO Transport Manager, is set up in the Advanced Network Laboratory of the Naval Postgraduate School. To simulate a realistic data transfer environment for the analysis, Smartbits Avalanche software is deployed to simulate multiple client-server scenarios in the SONET network. Traffic from the management channel is then captured using a packet sniffer. Queuing analysis on the captured data is performed with particular emphasis on properties of self-similarity. In particular, the Hurst parameter which determines the captured traffic's degree of self-similarity is estimated using the Variance-Index plot technique. Link utilization is also derived from the computation of first-order statistics of the captured traffic distribution. The study shows that less management data was exchanged when the SONET network was fully loaded. In addition, it is recommended that CTM 4.6 be used to manage not more than 1552 NEs for safe operation. The results presented in this thesis will aid network planners to optimize the management of their SONET/SDH networks. / Civilian, Ministry of Defense, Singapore

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaCGS.pdf: 4192359 bytes, checksum: 28eb36354363672f88a28074f9df8b42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-23 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Telecommunications play a key role in contemporary society. However, as new technologies are put into the market, it also grows the demanding for new products and services that depend on the offered infrastructure, making the problems of planning telecommunications networks, despite the advances in technology, increasingly larger and complex. However, many of these problems can be formulated as models of combinatorial optimization, and the use of heuristic algorithms can help solving these issues in the planning phase. In this project it was developed two pure metaheuristic implementations Genetic algorithm (GA) and Memetic Algorithm (MA) plus a third hybrid implementation Memetic Algorithm with Vocabulary Building (MA+VB) for a problem in telecommunications that is known in the literature as Problem SONET Ring Assignment Problem or SRAP. The SRAP arises during the planning stage of the physical network and it consists in the selection of connections between a number of locations (customers) in order to meet a series of restrictions on the lowest possible cost. This problem is NP-hard, so efficient exact algorithms (in polynomial complexity ) are not known and may, indeed, even exist / As telecomunica??es desempenham um papel fundamental na sociedade contempor?nea. Mas ? medida que novas tecnologias s?o introduzidas ao mercado, cresce tamb?m a demanda por novos produtos e servi?os que dependem da infra-estrutura oferecida, tornando os problemas de planejamento de redes de telecomunica??es, apesar da evolu??o tecnol?gica, cada vez maiores e complexos. No entanto, muitos desses problemas podem ser formulados como modelos de otimiza??o combinat?ria, e o uso de algoritmos heur?sticos podem ajudar a solucionar essas quest?es da fase de planejamento. Neste trabalho, foram desenvolvidas duas implementa??es metaheur?sticas puras Algoritmo Gen?tico (AG) e Algoritmo Mem?tico (AM) al?m de uma terceira implementa??o h?brida Algoritmo Mem?tico com Vocabulary Building (AM+VB) para um problema de telecomunica??es que ? conhecido na literatura por Problema de Atribui??o de Localidades a An?is SONET ou SRAP (do ingl?s, SONET Ring Assignment Problem). O SRAP surge durante a etapa do planejamento f?sico da rede e consiste na determina??o das conex?es entre um conjunto de localidades (clientes), de modo a satisfazer uma s?rie de restri??es ao menor custo poss?vel. Esse problema ? NP-dif?cil e portanto algoritmos exatos eficientes (de complexidade polinomial) n?o s?o conhecidos, podendo, inclusive, nem existir

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WernerKSS.pdf: 2229557 bytes, checksum: 7a64dc1b94612cd78d88c6eb822d29e6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-31 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The SONET/SDH Ring Assignment Problem (PALAS) treats to group localities in form of some rings, being respected the traffic's limitations of the equipment. Each ring uses a DXC (Digital Cross Connect) to make the communication with the others, being the DXC the equipment most expensive of the net, minimizing the number total of rings, will minimize the total net cost, problem's objective . This topology in rings provides a bigger capacity of regeneration. The PALAS is a problem in Combinatorial Optimization of NP-hard Class. It can be solved through Heuristics and Metaheuristics. In this text, we use Taboo Search while we keep a set of elite solutions to be used in the formation of a part of the collection of vocabulary's parts that in turn will be used in the Vocabulary Building. The Vocabulary Building will be started case Taboo Search does not reach the best solution for the instance. Three approaches had been implemented: one that only uses vocabulary's parts deriving of Taboo Search, one that it only uses vocabulary's parts randomly generated and a last one that it uses half come of the elite and half randomly generated / O Problema da Atribui??o de Localidades a An?is em Redes SONET/SDH (PALAS) trata de agrupar localidades em forma de v?rios an?is, respeitando as limita??es de tr?fego dos equipamentos. Cada anel utiliza um DXC (Digital Cross Connect) para fazer a comunica??o com os outros, sendo o DXC o equipamento mais caro da rede, minimizando o total de an?is, minimizaremos o custo total, objetivo do problema. Essa topologia em an?is proporciona uma maior capacidade de regenera??o. O PALAS ? um problema de Otimiza??o Combinat?ria da Classe NP-dif?cil. Pode ser resolvido atrav?s de Heur?sticas e Metaheur?sticas. Neste trabalho, utilizamos a Busca Tabu enquanto guardamos um conjunto de solu??es elite para serem utilizadas na forma??o de uma parte da cole??o de voc?bulos que por sua vez ser?o usados na Constru??o de Vocabul?rio para a solu??o desse problema. A Constru??o de Vocabul?rio ser? acionada caso a Busca Tabu n?o atinja o ?timo para a inst?ncia. Foram implementadas tr?s abordagens: uma que utiliza somente voc?bulos oriundos da Busca Tabu, uma que utiliza somente voc?bulos gerados aleatoriamente e uma ?ltima que utiliza metade vinda da elite e metade aleat?ria

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:52:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 WagnerO_DISSERT.pdf: 4964124 bytes, checksum: 34ed6ffd6dcd720ddf12631ffd06a3d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-17 / The telecommunications play a fundamental role in the contemporary society, having as one of its main roles to give people the possibility to connect them and integrate them into society in which they operate and, therewith, accelerate development through knowledge. But as new technologies are introduced on the market, increases the demand for new products and services that depend on the infrastructure offered, making the problems of planning of telecommunication networks become increasingly large and complex. Many of these problems, however, can be formulated as combinatorial optimization models, and the use of heuristic algorithms can help solve these issues in the planning phase. This paper proposes the development of a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to be applied to telecommunications problem known in the literature as SONET Ring Assignment Problem SRAP. This problem is the class NP-hard and arises during the physical planning of a telecommunication network and consists of determining the connections between locations (customers), satisfying a series of constrains of the lowest possible cost. Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of the Evolutionary Algorithm parallel, over other methods, to obtain solutions that are either optimal or very close to it / As telecomunica??es desempenham um papel fundamental na sociedade contempor?nea, tendo como um de seus principais pap?is o de conceder ?s pessoas a possibilidade de conect?-las e integr?-las ? sociedade em que vivem e com isso acelerar o desenvolvimento por meio do conhecimento. Mas, ? medida que novas tecnologias s?o introduzidas no mercado, cresce tamb?m a demanda por novos produtos e servi?os que dependem da infraestrutura oferecida, tornando os problemas de planejamento de redes de telecomunica??es cada vez maiores e mais complexos. Muitos desses problemas, no entanto, podem ser formulados como modelos de Otimiza??o Combinat?ria, e o uso de algoritmos heur?sticos podem ajudar a solucionar essas quest?es da fase de planejamento. Este trabalho prop?e o desenvolvimento de um Algoritmo Evolutivo paralelo a ser aplicado ao problema de telecomunica??es conhecido na literatura por Problema de Atribui??o de Localidades a An?is em Redes SONET/SDH ou PALAS. Esse problema ? da classe NP-dif?cil e surge durante a etapa do planejamento f?sico da rede e consiste na determina??o das conex?es entre localidades (clientes), de modo a satisfazer uma s?rie de restri??es ao menor custo poss?vel. Os resultados dos experimentos ilustram a efici?ncia do Algoritmo Evolutivo paralelo, sobre outros m?todos, em obter solu??es ?timas ou muito pr?ximas do valor ?timo

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-144). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / In this thesis, the scalability issues of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) in optical network management are explored. It is important to understand the effect of varying the number of nodes, the request inter-arrival times and the polling interval on the performance of SNMP and number of nodes that can be effectively managed. The current study explored the effect of varying these parameters in a controlled test environment using the OPNET simulation package. In addition, traffic analysis was performed on measured SNMP traffic and statistics were developed from the traffic analysis. With this understanding of SNMP traffic, an SNMPv1 model was defined and integrated into an OPNET network model to study the performance of SNMP. The simulation results obtained were useful in providing needed insight into the allowable number of nodes an optical network management system can effectively manage. / Civilian, Singapore Ministry of Defense

Ondrej Hanus Czech Sonnet in the 1st Half of the 20th Century Abstract This thesis examines the history of Czech sonnets in 1885-1948. Based on a carefully selected material, it analyses the position of particular texts both in the work of individual writers (from Jaroslav Vrchlicky to Jan Zabrana) and in the defined period of Czech literary history. This period is divided into three phases (1885-1900, 1900-1930 a 1931-1948). Both formal aspects (metre, rhyme, strophic structure) and functional aspects (the various roles of the sonnet in the individual phases of Czech literary history) are taken into account. An important part of the thesis is the revision of the standard narrow formalistic definition of the sonnet. This is substituted with a much broader definition, allowing us to regard various formal experiments as fully-fledged sonnets.