Olympics MPEG-II traffic library

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Quality of service and fairness in ATM based MPLS switches implementing packet based VC-merge

Ph.D.John A. Copelan

University Methodology for Internetworking Principles and Design Projects

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To my wonderful parents and my beloved family. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Completing this Ph.D. has been an exciting long journey, and it would not have been possible without the help and encouragement of many people. First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor Professor Henry L. Owen for his continuous support and guidance throughout my studies. Professor Owen has been an awesome mentor-he truly enjoys advising. I admire his passion in teaching and conducting research. I really appreciate that he has given me a lot of freedom in my research. It has been my privilege and honor to be associated with Professor Owen and I will be forever grateful for his constant encouragement and wisdom. I would also like to thank the members of my committee, Professor John A. Copeland, Dr. Randal T. Abler, Professor Mustaque Ahamad, and Professor Yorai Wardi, for serving on my proposal and dissertation committees. Furthermore, I have benefited immensely from my interactions with Joachim Sokol, Hans-Peter Huth, and Joachim Grimminger at Siemens AG, in Munich. My thesis topic and several ideas contained in this thesis are the outcomes of our interac-tions with Siemens on the TATI project. I am very grateful to the Siemens AG team for supporting and funding this research as well. I will always appreciate the friendship of my past and present officemates an

The vertically integrated projects (VIP) program : leveraging faculty research interests to transform undergraduate STEM education

The Vertically-Integrated Projects (VIP) Program is an education program that operates in a research and development context. Undergraduate students that join VIP teams earn academic credit for their participation in discovery and design efforts that assist faculty and graduate students with research and development issues in their areas of technical expertise. The teams are: multidisciplinary – drawing students from across campus; vertically integrated – maintaining a mix of sophomores through PhD students each semester; and long-term – each undergraduate student may participate in a project for up to three years. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable the completion of projects of significant benefit to faculty members’ research programs. We compare the implementations and success of VIP Programs at five different institutions by a variety of criteria, including: origin and type of implementation strategy; number of disciplines involved; type of institution; implementation in the curriculum; resources and support available; growth of the program; grading/assessment strategy and tools; relationship with other discovery and design programs; software tools for program administration; number of students and faculty involved; etc. While programmatic variations and support have a marked effect on the success of VIP at each institution, its implementation in the curriculum and the ease of scheduling and timetabling teams stand out as two of the most important issues for every VIP site. The common slow pace of curricular change and the variability of curricular implementations across disciplines and institutions, lead to specific recommendations and strategies for future growth and dissemination of the VIP Program

Intrusion Detection Testing and Benchmarking Methodologies

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