The design of optical transport and IP networks is investigated with respect to the effect on overall network performance when the two aspects are combined in the same network architecture. The focus is on the identif...
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(纸本)9783800730971
The design of optical transport and IP networks is investigated with respect to the effect on overall network performance when the two aspects are combined in the same network architecture. The focus is on the identification of advantages in the joint design of IP and transport networks, as well as on the shortcomings and network bottlenecks which may result from sub-optimal design. The impact of different IP routing strategies (shortest path, equal-cost multipath) on the network utilization is quantified, and potential sources for overload in the IP domain are determined. Simulations were carried out to systematically assess technical metrics like link utilization and economic parameters such as cost for a 50-node transport network with line rates up to 40 Gbit/s. The impact of fiber cuts was taken into account, leading to multiple logical IP links to fail simultaneously, i.e. shared risk link groups (SRLGs), and triggering massive IP rerouting. Applying the results allows to identify bottlenecks in the design, and to devise mechanisms which allow cost-optimal network design of future IP and optical transport networks.
Although Web services are generally envisioned as being stateless, some of them are implicitly stateful. The reason is that the Web services often work as front-ends to enterprise systems and are used in a session-ori...
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Although Web services are generally envisioned as being stateless, some of them are implicitly stateful. The reason is that the Web services often work as front-ends to enterprise systems and are used in a session-oriented way by the clients. Contrary to the case of stateless services, for a stateful Web service there exist constraints to the order in which the operations of the service may be invoked. However, specification of such constraints is not a standard part of a Web service interface, and compliance with such constraints is not checked by the standard Web service development tools. Therefore, we propose in this paper to extend a web service interface by a constraint definition that is based on behavior protocols. Also, we implemented a tool that checks whether a given BPEL code complies with the constraints of all stateful web services it communicates with. The key idea behind the tool is to translate the BPEL code into Java and then to check the Java program using Java PathFinder with behavior protocol extension.
Television over the Internet (IPTV) is regarded as the killer application for Next Generation Networks (NGN). While the ITU is currently moving toward the standardized of IPTV, several existing applications like Joost...
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Television over the Internet (IPTV) is regarded as the killer application for Next Generation Networks (NGN). While the ITU is currently moving toward the standardized of IPTV, several existing applications like Joost and Zattoo are currently already providing a large amount of video content to Internet users. In this paper we study some popular video content delivery mechanisms and characterize them by measurements to study the user-perceived Quality of Experience (QoE).
Implicit coscheduling techniques applied to non-dedicated homogeneous Networks Of Workstations (NOWs) have shown they can perform well when many local users compete with a single parallel job. Implicit coscheduling ...
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Implicit coscheduling techniques applied to non-dedicated homogeneous Networks Of Workstations (NOWs) have shown they can perform well when many local users compete with a single parallel job. Implicit coscheduling deals with minimizing the communication waiting time of parallel processes by identifying the processes in need of coscheduling through gathering and analyzing implicit runtime information, basically communication events. Unfortunately, implicit coscheduling techniques do not guarantee the performance of local and parallel jobs, when the number of parallel jobs competing against each other is increased. Thus, a low efficiency use of the idle computational resources is achieved.
In order to solve these problems, a new technique, named Cooperating CoScheduling (CCS), is presented in this work. Unlike traditional implicit coscheduling techniques, under CCS, each node takes its scheduling decisions from the occurrence of local events, basically communication, memory, Input/Output and CPU, together with foreign events received from cooperating nodes. This allows CCS to provide a social contract based on reserving a percentage of CPU and memory resources to ensure the progress of parallel jobs without disturbing the local users, while coscheduling of communicating tasks is ensured. Besides, the CCS algorithm uses status information from the cooperating nodes to balance the resources across the cluster when necessary. Experimental results in a non-dedicated heterogeneous NOW reveal that CCS allows the idle resources to be exploited efficiently, thus obtaining a satisfactory speedup and provoking an overhead that is imperceptible to the local user.
Self-organizing techniques have successfully been used to optimize software systems, such as optimization of route stability in ad hoc network routing and optimization of the use of storage space or processing power u...
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Motivation - In some situations EID's high-level visual design principles can be difficult to apply. A more concrete design methodology would make the framework more accessible for interface designers. Research ap...
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(纸本)9781847998491
Motivation - In some situations EID's high-level visual design principles can be difficult to apply. A more concrete design methodology would make the framework more accessible for interface designers. Research approach - Graphics research was reviewed across a number of fields. The Visualisation Reference Model was identified as a useful model that could be used alongside EID's visual design principles. A case study is used to demonstrate this approach. Findings/Design - Supplementing a work domain analysis with a task analysis can reveal how information requirements are used. This allows data transformations and visual mapping to be carried out to generate visual components in an ecological interface design. Take away message - Task analysis not only improves the quality of our information requirements, it can also inform the visual design process.
Message delivery in sparse Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) is difficult due to the fact that the network graph is rarely (if ever) connected. A key challenge is to find a route that can provide good delivery performan...
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(纸本)9781595936844
Message delivery in sparse Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) is difficult due to the fact that the network graph is rarely (if ever) connected. A key challenge is to find a route that can provide good delivery performance and low end-to-end delay in a disconnected network graph where nodes may move freely. This paper presents a multidisciplinary solution based on the consideration of the so-called small world dynamics which have been proposed for economy and social studies and have recently revealed to be a successful approach to be exploited for characterising information propagation in wireless networks. To this purpose, some bridge nodes are identified based on their centrality characteristics, i.e., on their capability to broker information exchange among otherwise disconnected nodes. Due to the complexity of the centrality metrics in populated networks the concept of ego networks is exploited where nodes are not required to exchange information about the entire network topology, but only locally available information is considered. Then SimBet Routing is proposed which exploits the exchange of pre-estimated "betweenness' centrality metrics and locally determined social "similarity' to the destination node. We present simulations using real trace data to demonstrate that SimBet Routing results in delivery performance close to Epidemic Routing but with significantly reduced overhead. Additionally, we show that SimBet Routing outperforms PRoPHET Routing, particularly when the sending and receiving nodes have low connectivity. Copyright 2007 ACM.
This paper proposes a first step into a common solution, where combined and extended interests will hopefully allow us to surpass this threshold. While there are still some open issues, we hope to not only propose a b...
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Location-based multi-player games are currently being pushed by the industry, one main factor being that highly-accurate positioning technologies like GPS as well as broadband mobile networks like UMTS are finally get...
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Applications like weather forecasting and prediction, health-care monitoring, habitat monitoring, tsunami-warning systems, demand integration of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with grids. The issues that need to be a...
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