The Internet was initially design for non real-time data communications and hence does not provide any Quality of Service (QoS). The next generation Internet will be characterized by high speed and QoS guarantee. The aim of this paper is to develop a prioritized early packet discard (PEPD) scheme for ATM switches to provide service differentiation and QoS guarantee to end applications running o...

This paper describes the Flexible Interconnection Protocol, or FLIP, whose main goal is to allow interconnection of heterogeneous devices with varying power, processing, and communication capabilities, ranging from simple sensors to more powerful computing devices such as laptops and desktops. The vision is that FLIP will be used to interconnect such devices forming clouds in the farthest branc...

Mobile Internetworking Protocol or Mobile 1P, proposed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), does not consider the requirements of tactical military networks, which are predominantly radio based and “on the move” with minimal fixed infrastructure. In this paper, we present a tactical Mobile 1P solution for the military architecture, specifically the Radio Access Point (RAP) network, wi...

This paper discusses the design and performance requirements for the interconnection of wireless nodes to a standard CAN bus environment. It is focused on the network architecture as a single centralised cell consisting of a central node and wireless terminals. The central node provides data communication between the CAN and the wireless network. It maintains a selflearning algorithm for the fr...

Complexity in developing multimedia systems in heterogeneous environments like Internet demands for customizable toolkits and frameworks which integrate multimedia networking protocols and application models. This paper proposes a component-based approach to engineer distributed multimedia systems which centers on lightweight actors and on the Internet multimedia protocol stack. A multimedia sy...

1. GENERAL OVERVIEW The Internet transport layer presently plays a key role in the internetworking traffic control. The transport layer protocols form the network connections behavior at the end-to-end level. Therefore, the transport layer provides a decisive contribution in internetworking reliability, stability and performance. The family of transport layer protocols presently use a wide sele...

This paper describes recent experiences with evaluating and implementing advanced internetwork communication protocols on top of ATM. First, performance results with conventional TCP/IP over ATM based on Digital Equipment’s Gigaswitch /ATM are reported. It becomes obvious that current protocols must be tuned specifically in order to exploit ATM performance. In order to address advanced quality ...

There are a wide range of equally valid approaches to teaching networking. One approach is to teach internetworking technologies (switches, routers). However, an extensive analysis of educational materials in this area has indicated that these devices are typically treated as 'black boxes'. This is contrary to educational theory that supports the need for a conceptual model. Two state models we...

federated management, service level agreements, system monitoring Increasingly, services such as E-commerce, web hosting, application hosting, etc., are being deployed over an infrastructure that spans multiple control domains. These end-to-end services require cooperation and internetworking between multiple organizations, systems and entities. Currently, there are no standard mechanisms to sh...

The increasing use of internetworking protocols to connect administratively heterogeneous networks has raised the question of how an organization can control the flow of information across its network boundaries. One method for doing so is the use of visas, a cryptographic technique for authenticating and authorizing a flow of datagrams. This paper presents and evaluates two visa protocols-one ...