Construction of baselines for VoIP traffic management on open MANs

In the last century, owing to the constant evolution of technologies telecommunication networks have become increasingly robust, being able to support multiple services. These services are part of the heterogeneous network traffic that can be carried through the Internet. Many of these services, including VoIP, are latency sensitive. In other words, this means that their quality depends directly on the network quality of service. Since users tend to become more sensitive with the instability and unavailability of the network, it is important to improve traffic management. A particular type of data that could be used to improve VoIP traffic management is the Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR). IPDRs are tickets created by all VoIP call attempts which contain a group of information related to the call history. Because of its full range of information, IPDRs can be used to create VoIP traffic baselines. This paper presents the development of baselines based on IPDRs to support VoIP traffic management in open-access Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.232137153government of the city of Pedreira, Brazi

Information and Telecommunications Project for a Digital City: A Brazilian case study

Making information and telecommunications available is a permanent challenge for cities concerned to their social, urban and local planning and development, focused on life quality of their citizens and on the effectiveness of public management. Such a challenge requires the involvement of everyone in the city. The objective is to describe the information and telecommunications project from the planning of a digital city carried out in Vinhedo-SP, Brazil. It was built as a telecommunications infrastructure of the kind of 'open access metropolitan area networks' which enables the integration of citizens in a single telecommunications environment. The research methodology was emphasized by a case study which turned to be a research-action, comprising the municipal administration and its local units. The results achieved describe, by means of a methodology, the phases, sub-phases, activities, approval points and resulting products, and formalize their respective challenges and difficulties. The contributions have to do with the practical feasibility of the project and execution of its methodology. The conclusion reiterates the importance of the project, collectively implemented and accepted, as a tool to help the management of cities, in the implementation of Strategic Digital City Projects, in the decisions of public administration managers, and in the quality of life of their citizens. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.3119811

Inference of network anomaly propagation using spatio-temporal correlation

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Many solutions have been proposed for network alarm correlation. However, they mainly have focused on alarm reduction and on root cause analysis. This paper presents an automated alarm correlation system composed of three layers, which obtains raw alarms and presents to network administrator a wide view of the scenario affected by the volume anomaly. In the preprocessing layer, it is performed the alarm compression using their spatial and temporal attributes, which are reduced into a unique alarm named Device Level Alarm (DLA). The correlation layer aims to infer the anomaly propagation path and its origin and destination using DLAs and network topology information. The presentation layer provides the visualization of the path and network elements affected by the anomaly propagation. Moreover, it is presented the Anomaly Propagation View (APV), a graphic tool developed to provide a wide visualization of the network status. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed solution, it was used real traffic data from State University of Londrina. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.35617811792Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Next Generation Networks and Applications Group (NetGNA), PortugalFCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2011]SETI/Fundacao AraucariaConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2011