Enabling content-aware traffic engineering

Balancing by PREFLEX: Congestion Aware Traffic Engineering

There has long been a need for a robust and reliable system which distributes traffic across multiple paths. In particular such a system must rarely reorder packets, must not require per-flow state, must cope with different paths having different bandwidths and must be self-tuning in a variety of network contexts. PREFLEX, proposed herein, uses estimates of loss rate to balance congestion. This...

Enabling Automatic Process-Aware Collaboration Support in Software Engineering Projects

Software Engineering (SE) remains an immature discipline and SE projects continue to be challenging due to their dynamic nature. One problematic aspect is the coordination of and collaboration among the many individuals working in such projects. Numerous efforts to establish software engineering environments (SEEs) to address this aspect have been made. However, since SE projects depend on indi...

Time-Dimensional Traffic Engineering with Storage Aware Routing

Energy-aware IP traffic engineering with shortest path routing

Internet energy consumption is rapidly becoming an issue due to the exponential traffic growth and the rapid expansion of communication infrastructures worldwide. We address the problem of energy-aware intra-domain traffic engineering in networks operated with a shortest path routing protocol. We consider the problem of switching off (putting in sleep mode) network elements (links and routers) ...

Requirements for Support of Differentiated Services-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering

A problem statement is first provided. Then, the document describes example applications scenarios identified by Service Providers where existing MPLS Traffic Engineering mechanisms fall short and Diff-Serv-aware Traffic Engineering can address the needs. The detailed requirements that need to be addressed by the technical solution are also reviewed. Finally, the document identifies the evaluat...