With the constantly growing usage of the Internet, the need for deployment of value-added IP
services has recently yielded a dramatic investigation effort in the field of IP traffic …

Deployment of quality-of-service (QoS) based value-added services in IP networks
necessitates the use of traffic engineering. Traffic engineering allows service providers to …

The necessity to keep acceptable service quality levels in IP networks is undeniable
nowadays, particularly with the improvement of the next generation networks. This promotes …

To deliver a reliable communication service over the Internet it is essential for the network
operator to manage the traffic situation in the network. The traffic situation is controlled by the …

Traffic measurements are collected to gain information about the traffic carried on a network.
In this paper, the focus is on those aspects pertaining to network dimensioning and control …

Services based on packet switched networks are becoming dominant in telecommunication
business and both operators and service providers must evolve in order to guarantee the …

It is a great challenge to analyze all the data obtained from the variety of measurement tools
existing today. This task is even more complicated when we need to extract useful …

Engineering a large IP backbone network without an accurate, network-wide view of the
traffic demands is challenging. Shifts in user behavior, changes in routing policies, and …

Quality of service based value-added services in IP networks necessitate the use of traffic
engineering. The latter relies typically on monitoring data for both offline, proactive and …

This document describes the principles of traffic engineering (TE) in the Internet. The
document is intended to promote better understanding of the issues surrounding traffic …