End-to-end quality-of-service coordination for mobile multimedia applications

Transmitting real-time multimedia streams over heterogeneous mobile networks is a challenging task. Variation in network and system conditions can dramatically affect application performance. When providing end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) multiple system facets should be coordinated: orchestration of local and peer resources, reservation of network resources, adaptation of multimedia streams, etc. This paper presents an end-to-end negotiation protocol (E2ENP) for negotiating and coordinating QoS on an end-to-end basis both at application and network layer. Based on a flexible extensible markup language (XML) model and extending SDPng concepts, the protocol enables the negotiation of system capabilities and allows provider-services to effectively influence the negotiation process. The aim of the E2ENP design is to optimize the efficiency of multimedia call setup and reduce the time for QoS renegotiations, whenever vertical handovers or spontaneous network reconfigurations occur. The basic protocol is presented, together with implementation and measurement results, stemming from several studies on current and future third-generation/fourth-generation scenarios.     

HSPA＋部署时Pre—R7终端的QoS问题研究

针对Pre—R7终端不支持大于16Mbit／s的速率从而导致HSPA＋部署时PDP激活失败的问题，基于对UMTSQoS的协商机制的分析，考虑从不同网络节点限制QoS，给出了各种解决方案，并对各方案对现有标准和运营商网络的影响进行了详细的比较分析，同时给出了一种过渡方案，最后给出了选择建议。     

基于业务优先和用户优先的资源调度——UMTS中的QoS策略分析

本文首先分析了移动通讯网络中实施QoS的重要意义,随后以中兴通讯的设备为例,介绍了UMTS系统中QoS信息的签约、传递、协商和运用过程。     

COPS-SLS usage for dynamic policy-based QoS management over heterogeneous IP networks

While each IP domain can deploy its own strategy to manage network resources, multimedia traffic needs end-to-end QoS management to obtain an overall service level. The provision of end-to-end QoS over a heterogeneous environment implies the negotiation of a mutually acceptable SLA. This article presents the use of the COPS-SLS protocol as a generic protocol for automatic service-level negotiation and the integration of this protocol in an overall QoS management architecture to manage service levels over multiple domains deploying different QoS technologies.     

分布式Web服务QoS注册中的高效负载均衡方法

该文提出了一种分布式Web服务QoS注册系统的负载均衡方法。提出了节点负载状态划分的概念。根据负载状态采用不同的负载信息散布策略,极大地减少了网络消耗。提出了基于简单协商的负载均衡方法。负载均衡用数据复制的方式,主要特点是在进行实际负载均衡操作以前即与复制目标节点进行协商,提出合理的复制需求,然后根据对方提供的资源情况,发起复制。提高了负载均衡的效率,降低了复制的盲目性。该方法在分布式Web服务QoS注册原型系统中进行了实验,达到了较好的效果。     

Dynamic Policy-Based Network Management for a Secure Coalition Environment

This article reports the latest results of an R&D effort to develop a prototype implementation of a dynamic policy-based network management (PBNM) system that can be used to configure and manage a secure network for a coalition environment across an unsecured wide area network. The prototype, based on a distributed architecture, includes capabilities for policy creation and management, dynamic policy negotiation, and dynamic policy provisioning. The policy negotiation facilitates the rapid deployment of a coalition network while the dynamic policy provisioning automates the configuration and management of network services including firewalls, virtual private network connections, routing, quality of service (QoS), and domain name services. Such a PBNM system enhances an organization's ability to react to network incidents identified by a network situational awareness assessment. Although the focus of the current research is a military coalition environment, the system can be used in any distributed enterprise or collaborative environment     

随机性检测参数选择研究

如何在分布式环境中灵活配置QoS参数成为一个值得关注的问题,目前用户对QoS的管理主要还是利用手工的静态配置和简单的策略管理,尚不能很好地适应网络规模的扩大以及设备的多样化。由此,提出了一个智能代理的内部基本模型,并在此基础上设计并实现了一个针对服务质量保证的智能代理实体模型,该模型包括智能代理对流量分布规律的分析、预测和配置功能以及代理之间的交互机制。原型系统的实验结果表明该模型可以有效地提供服务质量保证。     

LTE系统中用户平面承载的研究与实现

LTE系统取消了QoS协商机制,采用网络端承载控制模式.用户平面引入EPS承载进行IP分组包的传输.研究并设计出满足LTE系统QoS机制的EPS承载,针对未来数据业务具有高速、突发性的特征,基于EPS承载传输IP分组包的应用,真正实现了用户的"永远在线",提高了业务的数据速率.     

WCDMA核心网QoS参数的研究

从3G业务QoS入手,对影响用户感知的Traffic class、THP、ARP等3项关键参数进行了重点研究,并结合现网进行了实际测试和信令跟踪。从信令消息中得到RAB指配消息中QoS参数的实际取值,进一步由RNC利用相关参数进行资源分配和调度控制,最终实现不同用户的不同服务保障。     

A CORBA-based quality of service management framework fordistributed multimedia services and applications

For distributed multimedia services, it is essential that quality of service be guaranteed system-wide, including end systems, communication systems, and networks. Although many researchers have addressed issues of QoS management, little attention has so far been paid to the QoS management services in distributed multimedia services and applications. To address this deficiency, we have designed a layered model for end-to-end QoS management called the QoS management framework. Our framework, which is CORBA-based, includes a generic QoS MIB for the QoS parameterization of various multimedia services and the services needed to perform various QoS functions. A key component of this framework is the QoS management service object (QMSO), which orchestrates resources at endpoints, coordinating resource management across layer boundaries. Services such as translation, monitoring, admission, and negotiation are provided by the QMSO. To validate this concept, we have developed a QoS management system for managing and controlling the QoS of a distributed multimedia system called MAESTRO. The QoS management system has been implemented through CORBA objects and provides an interface to multimedia applications, which can be dynamic negotiation and renegotiation of QoS by users. Some performance results in QoS negotiation and renegotiation are also presented     

一种人与人和物到物业务共存下的异构蜂窝网络柔性接入策略

针对人与人(H2H)和物到物(M2M)业务共存的异构无线网络,该文设计了一种根据业务特性的代理节点的网络选择策略,用博弈论对以保障两类业务服务质量(QoS)需求和网络负载均衡为目标的代理节点网络选择问题进行建模,并分析了该博弈模型纳什均衡(NE)的存在性和可行性;同时,提出了基于学习自动机的分布式网络-信道选择算法(DNCSALA),求得该博弈的纳什均衡。仿真结果表明,所提算法能够获得与穷举搜索算法相近的性能,可满足共存场景中不同类型业务的QoS需求并提高网络资源利用率。     

Distributed Busacker–Gowen algorithm for end-to-end QoS pipe negotiation in X-domain networks

Multimedia services and other critical multisite services (e.g., VPN) are becoming mainstream, and they require a guaranteed quality of service (QoS). Services need to be established across several autonomous systems (ASes), often to connect end-users. Thus, provisioning and control of end-to-end QoS requirements arise as one of the main challenges in inter-AS management. The contractual approach, consisting in using service-level agreements (SLAs) defined by each crossed AS, allows to negotiate contract chains that satisfy end-to-end requirements. However, establishing such chains by on-demand negotiations does not scale up for large numbers of requests. Hence, we propose a negotiation process to occur before users’ requests to establish service are received. The proposed negotiation process results in the selection of aggregated contract chains, called pipes, and a distribution between them. Such a distribution would indicate, for each chain of a pipe, the connection flow it may accept. In this paper, we address the pipe negotiation problem as a network flow problem. We also propose a distributed adaptation of an algorithm for network flow problems.     

基于移动Agent技术的QoS保障机制

介绍了移动Agent的基本特性。移动Agent可在异构的网络各个节点间自由地移动,它能感知网络的状态,监控系统并与其他Agent进行交互。IETF的IS模型采用了RSVP(ResourcereSerVationProtocol)协议对系统资源进行预留,从而达到一定程度上保障所需QoS的目的。QoS保障机制将移动agent技术与RSVP协议结合起来,通过资源预留和agent动态移动的实现可以达到更好地改善QoS的目的。     

一种基于SIP扩展实现IMS多域间QoS方案

以IMS为核心的NGN网络己被认为是适应未来固定网与移动网融合的网络架构。要实现IMS跨网络的QOS保证，需要域间、上下层的相互协作。丈中分析了IMS QoS机制，指出了在资源协商、资源预留以及资源保证方面SIP协议的不足，提出了一种基于SIP扩展实现多域间QoS的方案，分析了该方案所带来的在信令流程中减少信令负荷等方面的改进，并给出了具体实现方案。     

CDMA EVDO网络中的QoS保障机制研究

随着3G无线分组网络的飞速发展,基于移动终端的实时多媒体业务需求也日趋广泛.如何保障诸如流媒体直播和可视通话等QoS要求较高的业务,必将成为一个重要的课题.对CDMA EVDO网络中的QoS保障机制进行了初步探讨,阐述了CDMA EVDO网络的QoS实现架构,并以终端MS源发呼叫的QoS协商过程为例,描述了其信令流程.     

Design and demonstration of policy-based management in a multi-hop ad hoc network

In this paper, we propose a policy-based framework for the management of wireless ad hoc networks and briefly describe a characteristics-based taxonomy that provides a platform to analyze and compare different architectural choices. We develop a solution suite that helps achieve our goal of a self-organizing, robust and efficient management system. One of the main contributions of this work is the prototype implementation and testing of the mechanisms and protocols comprising our framework in a multi-hop ad hoc network environment. Experiments are conducted using both an emulated ad hoc network testbed and a true wireless testbed. Degradation in management system performance is observed as the number of hops between a policy server and client increases. Our proposed k-hop clustering algorithm alleviates this problem by limiting the number of hops between a server and client. We demonstrate the operation of our prototype implementation, illustrating QoS management in a multi-domain ad hoc network environment using the proposed cluster management, redirection, and policy negotiation mechanisms.     

New Concept Platforms for QoS Management in Future Telecommunication Scenarios

In this paper the concept of “Situation&Location” based platforms for QoS management in next-generation heterogeneous telecommunication scenarios is presented. The exploitation of a Multi-Agent System is investigated with the aim of providing a user with seamless and optimized network access to the desired service based on its current situation and location. Key feature of the proposed system is the presence of a middleware platform exploiting user profile-, resource-, and situation-management agents whose ontology is specified in XML language. The proposed platform is intended as a sample architecture for QoS control and adaptation. It tries to contribute to the research activities that several forums, interest groups, and standardization bodies are conducting in the view of 4G system full deployment.     

Analysis of adaptive bandwidth allocation in wireless networks with multilevel degradable quality of service

A wireless/mobile network supporting multilevel quality of service (QoS) is considered. In such a network, users or applications can tolerate a certain degree of QoS degradation. Bandwidth allocation to users can, therefore, be adjusted dynamically according to the underlying network condition so as to increase bandwidth utilization and service provider's revenue. However, arbitrary QoS degradation may be unsatisfactory or unacceptable to the users, hence resulting in their subsequent defection. Instead of only focusing on bandwidth utilization or blocking/dropping probability, two new user-perceived QoS metrics, degradation ratio and upgrade/degrade frequency, are proposed. A Markov model is then provided to derive these QoS metrics. Using this model, we evaluate the effects of adaptive bandwidth allocation on user-perceived QoS and show the existence of trade offs between system performance and user-perceived QoS. We also show how to exploit adaptive bandwidth allocation to increase system utilization (for the system administrator) with controlled QoS degradation (for the users). By considering various mobility patterns, the simulation results are shown to match our analytical results, demonstrating the applicability of our analytical model to more general cases.     

Joint QoS-control and handover optimization in backhaul aware SDN-based LTE networks

Future cellular networks will be dense and require key traffic management technologies for fine-grained network control. The problem gets more complicated in the presence of different network segments with bottleneck links limiting the desired quality of service (QoS) delivery to the last mile user. In this work, we first design a framework for software-defined cellular networks and then propose new mechanisms for management of QoS and non-QoS users traffic considering both access and backhaul networks, jointly. The overall SDN-LTE system and related approaches are developed and tested using network simulator in different network environments. Especially, when the users are non-uniformly distributed, the results shows that compared to other approaches, the proposed load distribution algorithm enables at least 6% and 23% increase in the average QoS user downlink throughput and the aggregate throughput of 40% users with lowest throughput (edge users), respectively. Also, the proposed system efficiently achieves desired QoS and handles the network congestion without incurring significant overhead.

     

基于CTMC和状态空间模型的宽带无线接入网的QoS性能研究

为了实现同一地域范围内的众多用户在有限带宽条件下提出的高QoS要求,本文对基于IEEE 802.16标准的宽带无线接入网中数据包级QoS（Quality of Service）性能进行了研究.具体做法是,首先采用批马尔可夫到达过程（BMAP,Batch Markov Arrival Process）和连续时间马尔科夫链（CTMC,Continuous Time Markov Chain）对到达过程和流量源进行建模,得到更符合实际和更准确的排队模型;然后基于状态空间,对一个无线接入网络系统进行建模,通过对得到的系统模型并结合前面得到的排队模型的深入分析,从而获得该模型下的各项QoS性能指标,如平均队列长度、丢包率、队列吞吐量和平均包时延.仿真实验结果表明,本文提出的算法模型相比于其他典型的算法模型,能够使得各项QoS性能指标有较大的改善和提高.