340 research outputs found
Future benefits and applications of intelligent on-board processing to VSAT services
The trends and roles of VSAT services in the year 2010 time frame are examined based on an overall network and service model for that period. An estimate of the VSAT traffic is then made and the service and general network requirements are identified. In order to accommodate these traffic needs, four satellite VSAT architectures based on the use of fixed or scanning multibeam antennas in conjunction with IF switching or onboard regeneration and baseband processing are suggested. The performance of each of these architectures is assessed and the key enabling technologies are identified
Topological Design of Multiple Virtual Private Networks UTILIZING SINK-TREE PATHS
With the deployment of MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) over a core backbone networks, it is possible for a service provider to built Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) supporting various classes of services with QoS guarantees. Efficiently mapping the logical layout of multiple VPNs over a service provider network is a challenging traffic engineering problem. The use of sink-tree (multipoint-to-point) routing paths in a MPLS network makes the VPN design problem different from traditional design approaches where a full-mesh of point-to-point paths is often the choice. The clear benefits of using sink-tree paths are the reduction in the number of label switch paths and bandwidth savings due to larger granularities of bandwidth aggregation within the network. In this thesis, the design of multiple VPNs over a MPLS-like infrastructure network, using sink-tree routing, is formulated as a mixed integer programming problem to simultaneously find a set of VPN logical topologies and their dimensions to carry multi-service, multi-hour traffic from various customers. Such a problem formulation yields a NP-hard complexity. A heuristic path selection algorithm is proposed here to scale the VPN design problem by choosing a small-but-good candidate set of feasible sink-tree paths over which the optimal routes and capacity assignments are determined. The proposed heuristic has clearly shown to speed up the optimization process and the solution can be obtained within a reasonable time for a realistic-size network. Nevertheless, when a large number of VPNs are being layout simultaneously, a standard optimization approach has a limited scalability. Here, the heuristics termed the Minimum-Capacity Sink-Tree Assignment (MCSTA) algorithm proposed to approximate the optimal bandwidth and sink-tree route assignment for multiple VPNs within a polynomial computational time. Numerical results demonstrate the MCSTA algorithm yields a good solution within a small error and sometimes yields the exact solution. Lastly, the proposed VPN design models and solution algorithms are extended for multipoint traffic demand including multipoint-to-point and broadcasting connections
Techniques for Processing TCP/IP Flow Content in Network Switches at Gigabit Line Rates
The growth of the Internet has enabled it to become a critical component used by businesses, governments and individuals. While most of the traffic on the Internet is legitimate, a proportion of the traffic includes worms, computer viruses, network intrusions, computer espionage, security breaches and illegal behavior. This rogue traffic causes computer and network outages, reduces network throughput, and costs governments and companies billions of dollars each year. This dissertation investigates the problems associated with TCP stream processing in high-speed networks. It describes an architecture that simplifies the processing of TCP data streams in these environments and presents a hardware circuit capable of TCP stream processing on multi-gigabit networks for millions of simultaneous network connections. Live Internet traffic is analyzed using this new TCP processing circuit
ENERGY EFFICIENT WIRED NETWORKING
This research proposes a new dynamic energy management framework for a backbone Internet Protocol over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IP over DWDM) network. Maintaining the logical IP-layer topology is a key constraint of our architecture whilst saving energy by infrastructure sleeping and virtual router migration.
The traffic demand in a Tier 2/3 network typically has a regular diurnal pattern based on people‟s activities, which is high in working hours and much lighter during hours associated with sleep. When the traffic demand is light, virtual router instances can be consolidated to a smaller set of physical platforms and the unneeded physical platforms can be put to sleep to save energy. As the traffic demand increases the sleeping physical platforms can be re-awoken in order to host virtual router instances and so maintain quality of service.
Since the IP-layer topology remains unchanged throughout virtual router migration in our framework, there is no network disruption or discontinuities when the physical platforms enter or leave hibernation. However, this migration places extra demands on the optical layer as additional connections are needed to preserve the logical IP-layer topology whilst forwarding traffic to the new virtual router location. Consequently, dynamic optical connection management is needed for the new framework.
Two important issues are considered in the framework, i.e. when to trigger the virtual router migration and where to move virtual router instances to? For the first issue, a reactive mechanism is used to trigger the virtual router migration by monitoring the network state. Then, a new evolutionary-based algorithm called VRM_MOEA is proposed for solving the destination physical platform selection problem, which chooses the appropriate location of virtual router instances as traffic demand varies. A novel hybrid simulation platform is developed to measure the performance of new framework, which is able to capture the functionality of the optical layer, the IP layer data-path and the IP/optical control plane. Simulation results show that the performance of network energy saving depends on many factors, such as network topology, quiet and busy thresholds, and traffic load; however, savings of around 30% are possible with typical medium-sized network topologies
QoS Restoration using a Disjoint Path Group in ATM Networks
Abstract A QoS restoration scheme for VP-based ATM network is proposed and its related characteristics are evaluated. The proposed scheme is a state-independent restoration scheme using a disjoint path group. A VP assignment and capacity planning problem using disjoint path group are formulated. When a failure occurs, failed working VPs are switched to protection paths with the same QoS level using a simple and fast restoration algorithm. The simulated restoration characteristics of the proposed algorithm are presented. A scheme of excess capacity assignment to protection path for dynamic traffic demands is also presented and analyzed
Multi-layer traffic engineering in optical networks under physical layer impairments
Ankara : The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent University, 2010.Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2010.Includes bibliographical references leaves 153-165.We study Traffic Engineering (TE) in Multiprotocol Label Switching
(MPLS)/Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks and propose a
multi-layer TE method. MPLS provides powerful TE features for IP networks
and is widely deployed in backbone networks. WDM can increase the transmission
capacity of optical fibers to tremendous amounts, therefore it has been the
dominant multiplexing technology used in the optical layer.
The proposed multi-layer TE solution facilitates efficient use of network resources
where the TE mechanisms in the MPLS and WDM layers coordinate.
We consider a static WDM layer and available traffic expectation information.
The TE problem arising in the considered scenario is the Virtual Topology Design
(VTD) problem, which involves the decision of WDM lightpaths to be established,
calculation of MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs) on the resulting
virtual topology, and calculation of the routes and wavelengths in the physical
topology that correspond to the lightpaths in the virtual topology. We assume
a daily traffic pattern changing with the time of day and aim to design a static
virtual topology that satisfies as much of the offered traffic as possible, over the
whole day.
In our proposed solution, the multi-layer VTD problem is solved by decomposing
it into two sub-problems, each involving in a single layer. The decomposition
approach is used in the thesis due to the huge computational burden of the combined
solution for real-life networks. The sub-problem in the MPLS layer is the
design of the lightpath topology and calculation of the LSP routes on this virtual
topology. This problem is known to be NP-complete and finding its optimum
solution is possible only for small networks. We propose a Tabu Search based
heuristic method to solve two versions of this problem, resource oriented and
performance oriented. Integer Linear Programming (ILP) relaxations are also
developed for obtaining upper and lower bounds. We show that the gap between
the produced solutions and the lower and upper bounds are around 10% and 7%
for the resource and performance oriented problems, respectively.
Since the actual traffic can show deviations from the expected values, we also
developed an MPLS layer online TE method to compensate the instantaneous
fluctuations of the traffic flows. In the proposed method, the LSPs are rerouted
dynamically using a specially designed cost function. Our numerical studies show
that using the designed cost function results in much lower blockings than using
commonly used Widest Shortest Path First and Available Shortest Path First
approaches in the literature.
The corresponding sub-problem of the multi-layer VTD problem in the WDM
layer is the Static Lightpath Establishment (SLE) problem. Along with the
capacity and wavelength continuity constraints, we also consider the Bit Error
Rate (BER) constraints due to physical layer impairments such as attenuation,
polarization mode dispersion and switch crosstalk. This problem is NP-complete
even without the BER constraints. We propose a heuristic solution method and
develop an exact ILP formulation to evaluate the performance of the proposed method for small problem sizes. Our proposed method produces solutions close
to the optimum solutions for the cases in which the ILP formulation could be
solved to optimality.
Then, these solution methods for the single layer sub-problems are combined
in a multi-layer TE scheme to solve the VTD problem in both layers jointly.
The proposed TE scheme considers the physical layer limitations and optical
impairments. This TE scheme can be applied by keeping each layer’s information
hidden from the other layer, but our simulations show that it can produce more
effective and efficient solutions when the physical layer topology information
is shared with the MPLS layer. We also investigate the effect of non-uniform
optical components in terms of impairment characteristics. The numerical results
show that more traffic can be routed when all the components in the network
have moderate impairment characteristics, compared to the case in which some
components have better and some have worse impairment characteristics.Şengezer, NamıkPh.D
Cost-effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure for Tanziania
The research conducted an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field
survey, the results revealed that Tanzania is still lagging behind in the ICT sector due to
the lack of an internationally connected terrestrial ICT infrastructure; Internet connectivity
to the rest of the world is via expensive satellite links, thus leaving the majority of the
population unable to access the Internet services due to its high cost. Therefore, an ICT
backbone infrastructure is designed that exploits optical DWDM network technology,
which un-locks bandwidth bottlenecks and provides higher capacity which will provide
ICT services such as Internet, voice, videos and other multimedia interactions at an
affordable cost to the majority of the people who live in the urban and rural areas of
Tanzania. The research analyses and compares the performance, and system impairments, in a DWDM system at data transmission rates of 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s per wavelength channel. The simulation results show that a data transmission rate of 2.5 Gb/s can be successfully transmitted over a greater distance than 10 Gb/s with minimum system impairments. Also operating at the lower data rate delivers a good system performance for the required ICT services. A forty-channel DWDM system will provide a bandwidth of 100 Gb/s.
A cost analysis demonstrates the economic worth of incorporating existing optical fibre
installations into an optical DWDM network for the creation of an affordable ICT
backbone infrastructure; this approach is compared with building a completely new optical
fibre DWDM network or a SONET/SDH network. The results show that the ICT backbone
infrastructure built with existing SSMF DWDM network technology is a good investment,
in terms of profitability, even if the Internet charges are reduced to half current rates. The
case for building a completely new optical fibre DWDM network or a SONET/SDH
network is difficult to justify using current financial data
Software-Driven and Virtualized Architectures for Scalable 5G Networks
In this dissertation, we argue that it is essential to rearchitect 4G cellular core networks–sitting between the Internet and the radio access network–to meet the scalability, performance, and flexibility requirements of 5G networks. Today, there is a growing consensus among operators and research community that software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and mobile edge computing (MEC) paradigms will be the key ingredients of the next-generation cellular networks. Motivated by these trends, we design and optimize three core network architectures, SoftMoW, SoftBox, and SkyCore, for different network scales, objectives, and conditions. SoftMoW provides global control over nationwide core networks with the ultimate goal of enabling new routing and mobility optimizations. SoftBox attempts to enhance policy enforcement in statewide core networks to enable low-latency, signaling-efficient, and customized services for mobile devices. Sky- Core is aimed at realizing a compact core network for citywide UAV-based radio networks that are going to serve first responders in the future. Network slicing techniques make it possible to deploy these solutions on the same infrastructure in parallel. To better support mobility and provide verifiable security, these architectures can use an addressing scheme that separates network locations and identities with self-certifying, flat and non-aggregatable address components. To benefit the proposed architectures, we designed a high-speed and memory-efficient router, called Caesar, for this type of addressing schemePHDComputer Science & EngineeringUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146130/1/moradi_1.pd
A New Heuristic Algorithm For Virtual Topology Reconfiguration In Optical Wdm Networks
Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Bilişim Enstitüsü, 2004Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Informatics, 2004Yüksek LisansM.Sc
Space-Based Information Infrastructure Architecture for Broadband Services
This study addressed four tasks: (1) identify satellite-addressable information infrastructure markets; (2) perform network analysis for space-based information infrastructure; (3) develop conceptual architectures; and (4) economic assessment of architectures. The report concludes that satellites will have a major role in the national and global information infrastructure, requiring seamless integration between terrestrial and satellite networks. The proposed LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite systems have satellite characteristics that vary widely. They include delay, delay variations, poorer link quality and beam/satellite handover. The barriers against seamless interoperability between satellite and terrestrial networks are discussed. These barriers are the lack of compatible parameters, standards and protocols, which are presently being evaluated and reduced
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