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Fancy - Flow-Aware Networking: Applications and Analysis

Background

Funding

Motivation

Traffic engineering and quality of service provisioning of the Internet, both in wired and wireless environment, are calling for new solutions as the current approaches have fallen short of expectations. Simplicity and robustness are the key objectives. Flow-aware networking has been suggested as an approach meeting these goals; traffic controls are applied at flow level while traffic flows are classified only into two broad categories: streaming and elastic flows.

Remarkable and unexpected changes in the traffic pattern of the Internet have taken place in a relatively short time: the appearance of peer-to-peer applications is a major paradigm shift and will create a lot of research problems both with regard to network provisioning, cross-layer optimisation and the internal performance issues on the application layer. This area is certainly becoming an important research topic for the years to come.

This project will concentrate on three research topics:

• Flow-aware scheduling and resource sharing in wireless cellular networks. The aim is to develop methods for improving the data traffic performance of wireless systems and making mobile broadband access more readily available.
• Insensitive traffic engineering, applications of the balanced fairness principle. This is methodological part of the project aiming at developing tools for both exact and approximate analysis of insensitive systems. The results are applied in the other parts of the project.
• Peer-to-peer networking, performance and traffic issues. An important goal is just to start work in this new field, to identify important problems and to make early contributions to the international research.

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