As the Internet becomes increasingly heterogeneous, the issue of congestion control
becomes ever more important. In order to maintain good network performance, mechanisms …

Due to the dramatic increase in competition over the last few years, it has become more and
more important for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to run an efficient business and offer an …

(57) ABSTRACT A technique for end-to-end admission control of real-time packet flows is
disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a …

This book answers a question which came about while the author was work ing on his
diploma thesis [1]: would it be better to ask for the available band width instead of probing …

End-to-end measurement based admission controls (MBAC) have recently been proposed
to support quality of service for real-time transfer of data. All these designs share the idea of …

Personal computing offers unique challenges for self-management due to its multi-
equipment, multi-situation, and multi-user nature. The aim of this research is to improve the …

Debugging data-intensive distributed applications running in datacenters is complex and
time-consuming because developers do not have practical ways of deterministically …

End-point admission control solutions have been proposed to meet quality requirements of
audio-visual applications with little support from routers. These proposals decentralize the …

Diese Dissertation untersucht, wie man die Effizienz und Dienstgüte eines IP Netzwerkes
aus der Sicht eines Internet Netzwerkbetreibers optimieren kann und sollte. Da die …

Internet quality of service (QoS) is still a highly debated topic for more than fifteen years.
Even with the large variety of QoS proposals and the impressive research advances, there is …