Since the most Internet services use TCP as a transport protocol there is a growing interest in the characterization of TCP flows. However, the flow characteristics depend on a large number of factors, due to the complexity ...

Since the number of wavelengths per fiber is growing in an exponential fashion the over- flow traffic can be routed through overflow lightpaths, thus providing an ideal network with near-infinite capacity and almost ...

Online Quality of Service (QoS) assessment in high speed networks is one of the key concerns for service providers, namely to detect QoS degradation on-the-fly as soon as possible and avoid customers’ complaints. In this ...

This paper shows a configuration scheme for networks with WFQ schedulers. It guarantees maximum revenue for the service provider in the worst case of network congestion. We focus on best effort traffic and select those ...