M.Comm. / This study was conducted with the intent of understanding and evaluating the commercial use and possibilities that the Internet offers, as well as the strategic approach businesses should take when commencing with electronic commerce on the Internet. The potential value of Intranets and Extranets has also been examined briefly. The Internet is a very useful mechanism for marketing as well as sales of products or services on a domestic or international basis. Various other commercial possibilities and uses exist for the Internet, as well as for its derivatives — the Intranet and Extranet. In the fiercely competitive market of today, companies research, develop and invest resources in various methods and tools in the hope to gain competitive advantage over their rivals. The Internet, Intranet and Extranet, used in isolation or conjunction, pose an extremely attractive alternative to gaining competitive advantage in a specific sector or market niche.The success of the Internet as a business tool depends directly on the overall business strategy that is driving the approach. For optimum success the main business strategy must be aligned with the Information Technology Strategy, and especially include thorough consideration as well as planning when implementing the Internet or one of its derivatives as a business tool.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-111).

Accelerated by on-demand computing, the number and diversity of the Internet services is increasing. Such online services often have unique requirements for the underlying wide-area network: For instance, online gaming service might benefit from low delay and jitter paths to client, while online data backup service might benefit from cheaper paths. Unfortunately, today's Internet does not accommodate fine-grained, service-specific wide-area route control. In this dissertation, I achieve the following goals: 1) improve the access to the routes, 2) quantify the benefits of fine-grained route control, and 3) evaluate the efficiency of current payment schemes for the wide-area routes. * Improving access to wide-area route control. Online services face significant technological and procedural hurdles in accessing the routes: Each service in need to control the Internet routes, has to obtain own equipment, Internet numbered resources, and establish contracts with upstream ISPs. In this dissertation, I propose and describe implementation and deployment of a secure and scalable system which provides on-demand access to the Internet routes. In setting such as cloud data center, the system can support multiple online services, providing each service with an illusion of direct connectivity to the neighboring Internet networks, which, for all practical purposes, allows services to participate fully in the Internet routing. * Quantifying the benefits of fine-grained route control. Even if online services are presented with wide-area route choice, it is not clear how much tangible benefit such choice provides. Most modern Online Service Providers (OSP) rely primarily on the content routing to improve network performance between the clients and the replicas. In this dissertation, I quantify the potential benefit the OSPs can gain if they perform a joint network and content routing. Among other findings, I find that by performing joint content and network routing, OSPs can achieve 22% larger latency reduction than can be obtained by content routing alone. * Modeling and evaluating the efficiency of the current payment schemes for wide-area routes. Finally, increasing diversity and sophistication of the online services participating in the Internet routing poses a challenge to payment models used in today's Internet. Service providers today charge business customers a blended rate: a single, "average" price for unit of bandwidth, without regard to cost or value of individual customer's flows. In my dissertation, I set to understand how efficient this payment model is and if more granular payment model, accounting for the cost and value of different flows could increase the ISP profit and the consumer surplus. I develop an econometric demand and cost model and map three real-world ISP data sets to it. I find that ISPs can indeed improve the economic efficiency with just a few pricing tiers.

Thesis (M.Eng.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2001. / Bibliography: leaves 128-135.

Thesis (M. App. Sc.)--Carleton University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-76). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004. / Thesis Advisor(s): Douglas E. Brinkley. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-118). Also available online.

Bibliography: leaves 128-135. Investigates the behaviour of TCP bulk file transfer application sessions in a broadband access environment. Introduces some concepts for evaluating network behaviour: a path instability parameter for analyzing different TCP connections; a minimum RTT delay and a minimum typical path for estimating path characteristics between a client and application servers.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / As technology progresses we are faced with ever increasing volumes and rates of raw and processed telemetry data along with digitized high resolution video and the less demanding areas of video conferencing, voice communications and general LAN-based data communications. The distribution of all this data has traditionally been accomplished by solutions designed to each particular data type. With the advent of Asynchronous Transfer Modes or ATM, a single technology now exists for providing an integrated solution to distributing these diverse data types. This allows an integrated set of switches, transmission equipment and fiber optics to provide multi-session connection speeds of 622 Megabits per second. ATM allows for the integration of many of the most widely used and emerging low, medium and high speed communications standards. These include SONET, FDDI, Broadband ISDN, Cell Relay, DS-3, Token Ring and Ethernet LANs. However, ATM is also very well suited to handle unique data formats and speeds, as is often the case with telemetry data. Additionally, ATM is the only data communications technology in recent times to be embraced by both the computer and telecommunications industries. Thus, ATM is a single solution for connectivity within a test center, across a test range, or between ranges. ATM can be implemented in an evolutionary manner as the needs develop. This means the rate of capital investment can be gradual and older technologies can be replaced slowly as they become the communications bottlenecks. However, success of this evolution requires some planning now. This paper provides an overview of ATM, its application to test ranges and telemetry distribution. A road map is laid out which can guide the evolutionary changeover from today's technologies to a full ATM communications infrastructure. Special applications such as the support of high performance multimedia workstations are presented.

Thesis (M.App.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-63). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

The project, Spider III, presents architecture and protocol of a multi-agent-based internet distributed computing system, which provides a convenient development and execution environment for transparent task distribution, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Spider is an on going distribution computing project in the Department of Computer Science, California State University San Bernardino. It was first proposed as an object-oriented distributed system by Han-Sheng Yuh in his master's thesis in 1997. It has been further developed by Koping Wang in his master's project, of where he made large contribution and implemented the Spider II System.