Network Performance Engineering

1. Front Matter

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2. Measurement Techniques

   1. On Kleinrock’s Independence Assumption

      • Adrian Popescu, Doru Constantinescu

      Pages 1-13

   2. Application Level Measurement

      • Patrik Arlos

      Pages 14-36

   3. Measurements and Analysis of Application-Perceived Throughput via Mobile Links

      • Markus Fiedler, Lennart Isaksson, Peter Lindberg

      Pages 37-69

3. Traffic Modelling and Engineering

   1. Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Traffic

      • Natalia M. Markovich, Udo R. Krieger

      Pages 70-97

   2. Markovian Modelling of Internet Traffic

      • António Nogueira, Paulo Salvador, Rui Valadas, António Pacheco

      Pages 98-124

   3. Multi-timescale Economics-Driven Traffic Management in MPLS Networks

      • Paola Iovanna, Maurizio Naldi, Roberto Sabella, Cristiano Zema

      Pages 125-140

   4. Modelling LRD and SRD Traffic with the Batch Renewal Process: Review of Results and Open Issues

      • Rod J. Fretwell, Demetres D. Kouvatsos

      Pages 141-173

   5. Local Area Networks and Self-similar Traffic

      • Hadi Larijani

      Pages 174-190

   6. Characterisation of Internet Traffic in Wireless Networks

      • Lei Liang, Yang Chen, Zhili Sun

      Pages 191-202

4. Queueing Systems and Networks

   1. Performance Analysis of Priority Queueing Systems in Discrete Time

      • Joris Walraevens, Dieter Fiems, Herwig Bruneel

      Pages 203-232

   2. Queueing Networks with Blocking: Analysis, Solution Algorithms and Properties

      • Simonetta Balsamo

      Pages 233-257

   3. Switching Queueing Networks

      • Vladimir V. Anisimov

      Pages 258-283

   4. Principles of Fairness Quantification in Queueing Systems

      • Hanoch Levy, Benjamin Avi-Itzhak, David Raz

      Pages 284-300

5. Analytic Methodologies

   1. Large Deviations Theory: Basic Principles and Applications to Communication Networks

      • Michele Pagano

      Pages 301-330

   2. Analysis of Non-product Form Parallel Queues Using Markovian Process Algebra

      • Nigel Thomas, Jeremy Bradley

      Pages 331-342

   3. Product-Form Solution in PEPA via the Reversed Process

      • Peter G. Harrison, Nigel Thomas

      Pages 343-356

   4. Generalised Entropy Maximisation and Queues with Bursty and/or Heavy Tails

      • Demetres D. Kouvatsos, Salam A. Assi

      Pages 357-392

   5. Stochastic Ordering of Semi-Markov Processes

      • Fátima Ferreira, António Pacheco

      Pages 393-422

   6. Spectral Expansion Solutions for Markov-Modulated Queues

      • Isi Mitrani

      Pages 423-446

During recent years a great deal of progress has been made in performance modelling and evaluation of the Internet, towards the convergence of multi-service networks of diverging technologies, supported by internetworking and the evolution of diverse access and switching technologies. The 44 chapters presented in this handbook are revised invited works drawn from PhD courses held at recent HETNETs International Working Conferences on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks. They constitute essential introductory material preparing the reader for further research and development in the field of performance modelling, analysis and engineering of heterogeneous networks and of next and future generation Internets. The handbook aims to unify relevant material already known but dispersed in the literature, introduce the readers to unfamiliar and unexposed research areas and, generally, illustrate the diversity of research found in the high growth field of convergent heterogeneous networks and the Internet. The chapters have been broadly classified into 12 parts covering the following topics: Measurement Techniques; Traffic Modelling and Engineering; Queueing Systems and Networks; Analytic Methodologies; Simulation Techniques; Performance Evaluation Studies; Mobile, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks, Optical Networks; QoS Metrics and Algorithms; All IP Convergence and Networking; Network Management and Services; and Overlay Networks.

• QoS
• Quality of Service, QoS
• broadband communication engineering
• future generation Internet
• network traffic management

• School of Computing, Informatics and Media, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

  Demetres D. Kouvatsos

During recent years a great deal of progress has been made in performance modelling and evaluation of the Internet, towards the convergence of multi-service networks of diverging technologies, supported by internetworking and the evolution of diverse access and switching technologies.

The 44 chapters presented in this handbook are revised invited works drawn from PhD courses held at recent HETNETs International Working Conferences on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks. They constitute essential introductory material preparing the reader for further research and development in the field of performance modelling, analysis and engineering of heterogeneous networks and of next and future generation Internets. The handbook aims to unify relevant material already known but dispersed in the literature, introduce the readers to unfamiliar and unexposed research areas and, generally, illustrate the diversity of research found in the high growth field of convergent heterogeneous networks and the Internet.

The chapters are broadly classified into 12 parts covering the following topics: Measurement Techniques, Traffic Modelling and Engineering, Queueing Systems and Networks, Analytic Methodologies, Simulation Techniques, Performance Evaluation Studies, Mobile, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks, Optical Networks, QoS Metrics and Algorithms, All IP Convergence and Networking, Network Management and Services, and Overlay Networks.

The 44 chapters presented in this handbook are revised invited works drawn from PhD courses held at recent HETNETs International WorkingConferences on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks. They constitute essential introductory material preparing the reader for further research and development in the field of performance modelling, analysis and engineering of heterogeneous networks and of next and future generation Internets. The handbook aims to unify relevant material already known but dispersed in the literature, introduce the readers to unfamiliar and unexposed research areas and, generally, illustrate the diversity of research found in the high growth field of convergent heterogeneous networks and the Internet.

The chapters are broadly classified into 12 parts covering the following topics: Measurement Techniques, Traffic Modelling and Engineering, Queueing Systems and Networks, Analytic Methodologies, Simulation Techniques, Performance Evaluation Studies, Mobile, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks, Optical Networks, QoS Metrics and Algorithms, All IP Convergence and Networking, Network Management and Services, and Overlay Networks.

The chapters are broadly classified into 12 parts covering the following topics: Measurement Techniques, Traffic Modelling and Engineering, Queueing Systems and Networks, Analytic Methodologies, Simulation Techniques, Performance Evaluation Studies, Mobile, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks, Optical Networks, QoS Metrics and Algorithms, All IP Convergence and Networking, Network Management and Services, and Overlay Networks.

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