Differentiated Service networks (DS) are fair in the way that different types of traffic can be associated to different network services, and so to different quality levels. However, fairness among flows sharing the same service may not be provided. Our goal is to study fairness between multirate multimedia sessions for an assured DS service, in a multicast network environment. To achieve this ...

This paper explains why the theory of effective bandwidth is in general not applicable to characterize realistic traffic sources. Moreover, we show that a static allocation of network resources (bandwidth and/or buffer space) based on large deviation theory can be highly inefficient when the real statistical behavior of traffic is taken into account. As an alternative, we propose a dynamic reso...

One of the important issues in the design of future generation high-speed networks is to provide differentiated services to different types of traffic with/without various time constraints and priorities. In this paper, we study the problem of providing differentiated services in passive star coupled wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks. We present a medium access control (MA...

In this paper, we propose two mechanisms, differentiation by backoff exponent and differentiation by the size of contention window, for IEEE 802.15.4 sensor networks to provide multi-level differentiated services in beacon-enabled mode with slotted CSMA/CA algorithm under non-saturation condition. Mathematical model based on discrete-time Markov chain is presented and analyzed to measure the pe...

In order to provide various services with different quality requirements, the current Internet is expected to turn into a QoS based Internet under the Differentiated Service (DiffServ) architecture. A variety of works have been done in the field of constraint based routing to provide QoS guaranteed or assured services by developing novel routing protocols and algorithms. However, most of these ...

An enhanced network service model for layered video multicast applications is presented for diffserv networks in this work, which consists of enhanced active queue management (AQM) and hierarchial priority marking. It is found from experiments that a straightforward application of the receiver-driven layer multicast (RLM) model to the diffserv network may perform poorer than to the best-effort ...

In this paper we introduced Modified Sized-based Queue Management as a dropping scheme that aims to fairly prioritize and allocate more service to VoIP traffic over bulk data like FTP as the former one usually has small packet size with less impact to the network congestion. In the same time, we want to guarantee that this prioritization is fair enough for both traffic types. On the other hand ...

In this paper we deal with mapping performance-oriented IP services such as Integrated Services (IntServ) or Differentiated Services (DiffServ) onto network performance parameters for cell-switched transport networks, as for example ATM. The impact of translating IP performance parameters into ATM network services is analyzed and the detrimental effects of careless mappings are illustrated. The...

We propose an adaptive token bucket algorithm for achieving proportional sharing of bandwidth among aggregate flows in differentiated service (DiffServ) networks. By observing the simulation results obtained in a study of the throughput of TCP flows in a DiffServ network, we note that the aggregate flow with a lower target rate occupies more bandwidth than its fair share, while the aggregate fl...

In order to reduce the user latency, the web sites disseminate some of their information to surrogate caches located closer to the users. We discuss a simple differentiated service type architecture for content delivery networks. A pricing scheme is next proposed to complement this architecture and provide fair service to the subscribed publishers. Then, we show that the suggested pricing schem...