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A study of the coexistence of heterogeneous flows on data networks.

Tam Sai-Wah. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [103]-104) and index. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.x / 摘要 --- p.xi / Abbreviations --- p.xii / Symbols --- p.xiv / Chapter Part I --- Background / Chapter 1 --- Background on coexistence --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1 --- Data network --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- Telephone network vs. data network --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Bandwidth in networks --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Taxonomy of flows --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Effect of heterogeneity and proposed solution --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- Cause and effect of heterogeneity --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- TCP-friendly congestion control as a solution --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3.3 --- Distributed admission control as a solution --- p.6 / Chapter 1.3.4 --- Evaluation methodology and organisation of this thesis --- p.6 / Chapter 2 --- Model of Heterogeneous Flows --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- The network --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Elastic flows --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Inelastic flows --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Stochastic Flows --- p.11 / Chapter 2.5 --- Controls --- p.12 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Congestion control for elastic flows --- p.12 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- No control for inelastic flows --- p.13 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Congestion control for inelastic flows --- p.14 / Chapter 2.5.4 --- Admission control for inelastic flows --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5.5 --- Admission control for inelastic flows with continuous assurance --- p.16 / Chapter 2.6 --- Markov chain model of control schemes --- p.17 / Chapter 2.6.1 --- Normalisation --- p.17 / Chapter 2.6.2 --- Control schemes and Markov chains --- p.18 / Chapter Part II --- Evaluation / Chapter 3 --- Stability of network under different controls --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1 --- Stability of queues --- p.29 / Chapter 3.2 --- Stability of the Markov chain models --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Observation of stability from simulation --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3 --- Informal discussion of stability --- p.33 / Chapter 4 --- Bandwidth allocation --- p.35 / Chapter 4.1 --- Aggregated bandwidth --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2 --- Bandwidth per flow --- p.37 / Chapter 5 --- Evaluation based on utility functions --- p.40 / Chapter 5.1 --- Properties of utility function --- p.40 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Utility for elastic flows --- p.40 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- Utility for inelastic flows --- p.41 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Utility throughput --- p.41 / Chapter 5.1.4 --- Choice of utility function --- p.43 / Chapter 5.2 --- Degree of elasticity --- p.45 / Chapter 5.3 --- Homogeneous environment --- p.46 / Chapter 5.4 --- Heterogeneous environment --- p.49 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Comparison for different offered load --- p.50 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Effect of scaling --- p.52 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Sensitivity to α and ε --- p.57 / Chapter 6 --- Blocking probability --- p.62 / Chapter 6.1 --- Formulating admission behaviour into PCDSDE --- p.62 / Chapter 6.2 --- Evaluation of the blocking probability --- p.64 / Chapter 6.3 --- Verification by simulation --- p.66 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Comparison for different offered load --- p.66 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Effect of scaling --- p.68 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Sensitivity to α and ε --- p.68 / Chapter 7 --- Population --- p.74 / Chapter 7.1 --- Mean number of inelastic flows --- p.74 / Chapter 7.2 --- Mean number of elastic flows --- p.75 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Elastic population after scaling --- p.79 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Effect of aggressiveness --- p.79 / Chapter 7.2.3 --- Effect of α --- p.82 / Chapter Part III --- Conclusion / Chapter 8 --- Conclusion --- p.85 / Chapter 8.1 --- Summary --- p.85 / Chapter 8.2 --- Implication --- p.87 / Chapter 8.3 --- Future Work --- p.88 / Appendices / Chapter A --- Glossary --- p.91 / Chapter B --- Introduction to Poisson counter driven stochastic differential equations --- p.97 / Chapter C --- Simulation --- p.101 / References --- p.103 / Index --- p.105

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325572
Date January 2006
ContributorsTam, Sai-Wah., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Information Engineering.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, xv, 106 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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