Thesis (MSc (Mathematical Sciences. Computer Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / Consider a path-oriented telecommunications network where calls arrive to each route in a Poisson process. Each call brings on average a fixed number of packets that are offered to route. The packet inter-arrival times and the packet lengths are exponentially distributed. Each route can queue a finite number of packets while one packet is being transmitted. Each accepted packet/call generates an amount of revenue for the route manager. At specified time instants a route manager can acquire additional capacity (“interface capacity”) in order to carry more calls and/or the manager can acquire additional buffer space in order to carry more packets, in which cases the manager earns more revenue; alternatively a route manager can earn additional revenue by selling surplus interface capacity and/or by selling surplus buffer space to other route managers that (possibly temporarily) value it more highly. We present a method for efficiently computing the buying and the selling prices of buffer space. Moreover, we propose a bandwidth reallocation scheme capable of improving the network overall rate of earning revenue at both the call level and the packet level. Our reallocation scheme combines the Erlang price [4] and our proposed buffer space price (M/M/1/K prices) to reallocate interface capacity and buffer space among routes. The proposed scheme uses local rules and decides whether or not to adjust the interface capacity and/or the buffer space. Simulation results show that the reallocation scheme achieves good performance when applied to a fictitious network of 30-nodes and 46-links based on the geography of Europe.

Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a group of mobile devices that can form a network, interconnect and share resources without the use of any fixed network infrastructure or centralised management. MANET is exposed to security attacks because of its fundamental characteristics such as open medium, dynamic topology and lack of central monitoring. The black hole attack is one example of the attacks MANET is exposed to. In black hole attack, a malicious node misleadingly claims to have an updated route to the destination node, absorbs and drops the packets that are supposed to be forwarded to the destination node. The common MANET reactive routing protocols are Ad-hoc on-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). These protocols are easily attacked by the black hole during the route discovery process. This research therefore studies black hole attack in detail and assesses the performance of AODV and DSR under black hole attack. The work is achieved by simulating the two protocols under regular operation and under black hole attack using Network Simulator 2 (NS-2). The protocols are analysed using packet delivery ratio, throughput and end-to-end delay as performance metrics. The research further compares the black hole attack solutions that have been previously proposed and determines the solution that performs better than others. The simulation results show that MANET under normal operating environment out performs MANET attacked by black hole, and that AODV is more vulnerable to black hole attack than DSR. The comparison study of the existing black hole attack solutions show that SAODV is the best effective black hole attack removal technique. But when considering the solution that brings no negative impact to the normal operation of the network, IDSAODV is the best solution. / Computing / M. Sc. (Computer Science)

Orientadores: Maurício Ferreira Magalhães, Christian Rodolfo Esteve Rothenberg / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T04:19:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ambiel_LisianeMariaBannwart_M.pdf: 4602800 bytes, checksum: 2d2a0d47c7410c9fd817dde52a62472d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: As Redes Orientadas a Conteúdo (ROC) se apresentam como uma nova forma de pensar a Internet: mudam o paradigma de comunicação apresentando uma nova abordagem com base no conteúdo independente de sua localização. Esta dissertação propõe uma arquitetura de rede orientada a conteúdos no nível de enlace sem uso de qualquer esquema de endereçamento. Os Content Routers (CR) são à base desta arquitetura, responsáveis pelo armazenamento de dados e roteamento de pacotes diretamente no conteúdo. Diferente do ambiente IP, onde existe o conhecimento do endereço do provedor de conteúdo, a arquitetura proposta no nível de enlace requisita conteúdos através da inundação de mensagens de forma controlada. Um protótipo é desenvolvido para validação da arquitetura e é utilizado em alguns cenários comparando duas abordagens: IP/overlay e nível de enlace. Alguns cenários de uso da arquitetura de CRs em redes domiciliares também são avaliados. Os resultados sugerem que arquiteturas orientadas a conteúdo e sem uso do IP podem ser viáveis e interessantes para redes de menor escala, que se beneficiariam de uma arquitetura simples, sem necessidade de configuração e gerenciamento como ocorre na arquitetura TCP/IP / Abstract: Content Oriented Networking is a new way to think about networking by changing the communication paradigm to an approach where content becomes the basis in replace of network location identifiers. This thesis proposes content oriented network architecture at the link layer without the use of network addressing schemes. Content Routers (CR) are the basis for this architecture and are in charge of packet caching and routing directly on content names. Different from IP environments, where the destination address of the content source is known, the proposed linklevel architecture requests contents by controlled message flooding. The work includes a prototype implementation which is used in some scenarios comparing two approaches: IP/overlay and link layer. Scenarios using CR architecture in home networks are also evaluated. Results suggest that content oriented IP-less architecture may be interesting for small networks such as home networks that would benefit from the simplicity of such architecture, without configuration and management as required when using TCP/IP / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestra em Engenharia Elétrica

Orientador: Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T20:17:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Moura_PedroMesquita_M.pdf: 2113385 bytes, checksum: 1ba529be35f0f2fbcb95f91c01acfa29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: As redes ópticas com multiplexação por comprimento de onda empregam uma grade fixa de divisão do espectro, dividindo-o em grandes faixas com alta capacidade de transmissão. Apesar de este esquema atingir altas velocidades de até 100Gb/s atualmente, a demanda de tráfego está cada vez maior e novas soluções são propostas como futuro das redes ópticas. A divisão do espectro em grandes faixas pode gerar problemas de falta de flexibilidade, onde requisições com baixas demandas de tráfego subutilizam comprimentos de onda. Nesse contexto as redes ópticas elásticas emergem, buscando flexibilizar a alocação do espectro utilizando alta granularidade na divisão do espectro, de modo que as conexões utilizem tipicamente vários slots, que são a unidade de alocação de redes ópticas elásticas. Utilizando-se da tecnologia de Multiplexação por Divisão de Frequências Ortogonais (OFDM), é possível fazer com que os slots adjacentes se sobreponham ortogonalmente, sem interferência, atingindo alta eficiência de utilização do espectro. O roteamento e alocação de espectro surge neste contexto com o objetivo de alocar rotas nas redes ópticas elásticas, necessitando caminhos na rede que possuam espectro suficiente para acomodar a demanda de tráfego, e a fim de manter o sinal no domínio óptico e evitar a custosa operação de conversão opto eletrônica, é necessário manter a mesma porção do espectro alocada em todos os enlaces do caminho, problema denominado de restrição de continuidade do espectro. Os slots devem ser também adjacentes para que estes se sobreponham utilizando OFDM, problema chamado de restrição de contiguidade do espectro. Esta dissertação investiga o problema roteamento e alocação de espectro e propõe algoritmos que melhoram características da rede, como qualidade de serviço, custo operacional e eficiência energética / Abstract: Wavelength division multiplexing optical networks employ fixed grid for spectrum, with high capacity transmission slots. Although this division allows high speeds of up to 100Gbps nowadays, the traffic demand grows each year and new solutions are needed in optical networks. The high capacity fixed grid can produce problems like the sub utilization of wavelengths by requests with lower traffic demand than their capacity. In this context the elastic optical networks emerged, allowing flexible division of spectrum, in a way that connections allocate several slots, the unit of spectrum of elastic optical networks. Together with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), it is possible to orthogonally overlap adjacent slots, without interference, achieving higher spectrum efficiency. The routing and spectrum assignment problem aims to allocate routes and spectrum in elastic optical networks, finding for paths with enough spectrum to accommodate the traffic demand. In order to avoid the costly optoelectronic signal conversion, it is necessary to allocate the same portion of spectrum in each link of the path, problem called spectrum continuity constraint. The slots must also be allocated contiguously, in order to the overlapping with OFDM be effective, problem called spectrum contiguity constraint. This work investigate the routing and spectrum assignment problem and proposes algorithms to improve network characteristics such as quality of service, operational expenditure and energy efficiency / Mestrado / Ciência da Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

Les réseaux ad hoc de véhicules accueillent une multitude d'applications intéressantes. Parmi celles-ci, les applications d'info divertissement visent à améliorer l'expérience des passagers. Ces applications ont des exigences rigides en termes de délai de livraison et de débit. De nombreuses approches ont été proposées pour assurer la qualité du service des dites applications. Elles sont réparties en deux couches: réseau et contrôle d'accès. Toutefois, ces méthodes présentent plusieurs lacunes.Cette thèse a trois volets. Le premier aborde la question du routage dans le milieu urbain. A cet égard, un nouveau protocole, appelé SCRP, a été proposé. Il exploite l'information sur la circulation des véhicules en temps réel pour créer des épines dorsales sur les routes et les connectées aux intersections à l'aide de nœuds de pont. Ces derniers collectent des informations concernant la connectivité et le délai, utilisées pour choisir les chemins de routage ayant un délai de bout-en-bout faible. Le deuxième s'attaque au problème d'affectation des canaux de services afin d'augmenter le débit. A cet effet, un nouveau mécanisme, appelé ASSCH, a été conçu. ASSCH collecte des informations sur les canaux en temps réel et les donne à un modèle stochastique afin de prédire leur état dans l'avenir. Les canaux les moins encombrés sont sélectionnés pour être utilisés. Le dernier volet vise à proposer un modèle analytique pour examiner la performance du mécanisme EDCA de la norme IEEE 802.11p. Ce modèle tient en compte plusieurs facteurs, tels que l'opportunité de transmission, non exploitée dans IEEE 802.11p / The fact that vehicular ad hoc network accommodates two types of communications, Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, has opened the door for a plethora of interesting applications to thrive. Some of these applications, known as infotainment applications, focus on enhancing the passengers' experience. They have rigid requirements in terms of delivery delay and throughput. Numerous schemes have been proposed, at medium access control and routing layers, to enhance the quality of service of infotainment applications. However, existing schemes have several shortcomings. Subsequently, the design of new and efficient approaches is vital for the proper functioning of such applications.This work proposes three schemes. The first is a novel routing protocol, labeled SCRP. It leverages real-time vehicular traffic information to create backbones over road segments and connect them at intersections using bridge nodes. These nodes are responsible for collecting connectivity and delay information, which are used to select routing paths with low end-to-end delay. The second is an altruistic service channel selection scheme, labeled ASSCH. It first collects real-time service channels information and feeds it to a stochastic model that predicts the state of these channels in the near future. The least congested channels are then selected to be used. The third is an analytical model for the performance of the IEEE 802.11p Enhanced Distributed Channel Access mechanism that considers various factors, including the transmission opportunity (TXOP), unexploited by IEEE 802.11p

Thesis (Ph.D. (Statistics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2017 / Operations Research (OR) is a scientific method for developing quantitatively well-grounded recommendations for decision making. While it is true that it uses a variety of mathematical techniques, OR has a much broader scope. It is in fact a systematic approach to solving problems, which uses one or more analytical tools in the process of analysis. Over the years, OR has evolved through different stages. This study is motivated by new real-world challenges needed for efficiency and innovation in line with the aims and objectives of OR – the science of better, as classified by the OR Society of the United Kingdom. New real-world challenges are encountered on a daily basis from problems arising in the fields of water, energy, agriculture, mining, tourism, IT development, natural phenomena, transport, climate change, economic and other societal requirements. To counter all these challenges, new techniques ought to be developed. The growth of global markets and the resulting increase in competition have highlighted the need for OR techniques to be improved. These developments, among other reasons, are an indication that new techniques are needed to improve the day-to-day running of organisations, regardless of size, type and location. The principal aim of this study is to modify and develop new OR techniques that can be used to solve emerging problems encountered in the areas of linear programming, integer programming, mixed integer programming, network routing and travelling salesman problems. Distribution models, resource allocation models, travelling salesman problem, general linear mixed integer ii programming and other network problems that occur in real life, have been modelled mathematically in this thesis. Most of these models belong to the NP-hard (non-deterministic polynomial) class of difficult problems. In other words, these types of problems cannot be solved in polynomial time (P). No general purpose algorithm for these problems is known. The thesis is divided into two major areas namely: (1) network models and (2) resource allocation and distribution models. Under network models, five new techniques have been developed: the minimum weight algorithm for a non-directed network, maximum reliability route in both non-directed and directed acyclic network, minimum spanning tree with index less than two, routing through 0k0 specified nodes, and a new heuristic to the travelling salesman problem. Under the resource allocation and distribution models section, four new models have been developed, and these are: a unified approach to solve transportation and assignment problems, a transportation branch and bound algorithm for the generalised assignment problem, a new hybrid search method over the extreme points for solving a large-scale LP model with non-negative coefficients, and a heuristic for a mixed integer program using the characteristic equation approach. In most of the nine approaches developed in the thesis, efforts were done to compare the effectiveness of the new approaches to existing techniques. Improvements in the new techniques in solving problems were noted. However, it was difficult to compare some of the new techniques to the existing ones because computational packages of the new techniques need to be developed first. This aspect will be subject matter of future research on developing these techniques further. It was concluded with strong evidence, that development of new OR techniques is a must if we are to encounter the emerging problems faced by the world today. Key words: NP-hard problem, Network models, Reliability, Heuristic, Largescale LP, Characteristic equation, Algorithm.

Thesis deals with the assessment of the current state of computer network management and information security for a particular company. Analyzes will be foundation for possible change proposals and enhancements to the requirements and economic opportunities of the specific company.

The convergence of recent technology advances opens the way to new ubiquitous environments, where network-enabled devices collectively form invisible pervasive computing and networking environments around the users. These users increasingly require extensive applications and capabilities from these devices. Recent approaches propose that cooperating service providers, at the edge of the network, offer these required capabilities (i.e services), instead of having them directly provided by the devices. Thus, the network evolves from a plain communication medium into an endless source of services. Such a service, namely an overlay application, is composed of multiple distributed application elements, which cooperate via a dynamic communication mesh, namely an overlay association. The Quality of Service (QoS) perceived by the users of an overlay application greatly depends on the QoS on the communication paths of the corresponding overlay association. This thesis asserts and shows that it is possible to provide QoS to an overlay application by using alternate Internet paths resulting from the compositions of independent consecutive paths. Moreover, this thesis also demonstrates that it is possible to discover, select and compose these independent paths in a distributed manner within an community comprising a limited large number of autonomous cooperating peers, such as the fore-mentioned service providers. Thus, the main contributions of this thesis are i) a comprehensive description and QoS characteristic analysis of these composite alternate paths, and ii) an original architecture, termed SPAD (Super-Peer based Alternate path Discovery), which allows the discovery and selection of these alternate paths in a distributed manner. SPAD is a fully distributed system with no single point of failure, which can be easily and incrementally deployed on the current Internet. It empowers the end-users at the edge of the network, allowing them to directly discover and utilize alternate paths.

An energy-aware on-demand Bluetooth scatternet formation and routing protocol taking into account network architecture and traffic pattern is proposed. The scatternet formation protocol is able to cope with multiple sources initiating traffic simultaneously as well as prolong network lifetime. A modified Inquiry scheme using extended ID packet is introduced for fast device discovery and power efficient propagation of route request messages with low delay. A mechanism employing POLL packets in Page processes is proposed to transfer scatternet formation and route reply information without extra overhead. In addition, the energy aware forwarding nodes selection scheme is based on local information and results in more uniform network resource utilization and improved network lifetime. Simulation results show that this protocol can provide scatternet formation with reasonable delay and with good load balance which results in prolonged network lifetime for Bluetooth-based wireless sensor networks. In this research, a metric-based scatternet formation algorithm for the Bluetooth-based sensor motes is presented. It optimizes the Bluetooth network formation from the hop distance and link quality perspectives. In addition, a smart repair mechanism is proposed to deal with link/node failure and recover the network connectivity promptly with low overhead. The experiments with the Intel Mote platform demonstrate the effectiveness of the optimizations. This research also investigates the scalability of ad hoc routing protocols in very large-scale wireless ad hoc networks. A comprehensive simulation study is conducted of the performance of an on-demand routing protocol on a very large-scale, with as many as 50,000 nodes in the network. The scalability analysis is addressed based on various network sizes, node density, traffic load, and mobility. The reasons for packet loss are analyzed and categorized at each network layer. Based on the observations, we observe the effect of the parameter selection and try to exhaust the scalability boundary of the on-demand routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks.

In the wake of major disasters, the failure of existing communications infrastructure and the subsequent lack of an effective communication solution results in increased risks, inefficiencies, damage and casualties. Currently available options such as satellite communication are expensive and have limited functionality. A robust communication solution should be affordable, easy to deploy, require little infrastructure, consume little power and facilitate Internet access. Researchers have long proposed the use of ad hoc wireless networks for such scenarios. However such networks have so far failed to create any impact, primarily because they are unable to handle network transience and have usability constraints such as static topologies and dependence on specific platforms. LifeNet is a WiFi-based ad hoc data communication solution designed for use in highly transient environments. After presenting the motivation, design principles and key insights from prior literature, the dissertation introduces a new routing metric called Reachability and a new routing protocol based on it, called Flexible Routing. Roughly speaking, reachability measures the end-to-end multi-path probability that a packet transmitted by a source reaches its final destination. Using experimental results, it is shown that even with high transience, the reachability metric - (1) accurately captures the effects of transience (2) provides a compact and eventually consistent global network view at individual nodes, (3) is easy to calculate and maintain and (4) captures availability. Flexible Routing trades throughput for availability and fault-tolerance and ensures successful packet delivery under varying degrees of transience. With the intent of deploying LifeNet on field we have been continuously interacting with field partners, one of which is Tata Institute of Social Sciences India. We have refined LifeNet iteratively refined base on their feedback. I conclude the thesis with lessons learned from our field trips so far and deployment plans for the near future.