Computational intelligence tools for next generation quality of service management

In this paper we explore the interest of computational intelligence tools in the management of heterogeneous communication networks, specifically to predict congestion, failures and other anomalies in the network that may eventually lead to degradation of the quality of offered services. We show two different applications based on neural and neuro-fuzzy systems for quality of service (QoS) management in next generation networks for voice and video service over heterogeneous Internet protocol (V2oIP) services. The two examples explained in this paper attempt to predict the communication network resources for new incoming calls, and visualizing the QoS of a communication network by means of self-organizing maps.     

Agent-based negotiation and decision making for dynamic supply chain formation

Modern businesses are facing the challenge of effectively coordinating their supply chains from upstream to downstream services. It is a complex problem to search, schedule, and coordinate a set of services from a large number of service resources under various constraints and uncertainties. Existing approaches to this problem have relied on complete information regarding service requirements and resources, without adequately addressing the dynamics and uncertainties of the environments. The real-world situations are complicated as a result of ambiguity in the requirements of the services, the uncertainty of solutions from service providers, and the interdependencies among the services to be composed. This paper investigates the complexity of supply chain formation and proposes an agent-mediated coordination approach. Each agent works as a broker for each service type, dedicated to selecting solutions for each service as well as interacting with other agents in refining the decision making to achieve compatibility among the solutions. The coordination among agents concerns decision making at strategic, tactical, and operational level. At the strategic level, agents communicate and negotiate for supply chain formation; at the tactical level, argumentation is used by agents to communicate and understand the preferences and constraints of each other; at the operational level, different strategies are used for selecting the preferences. Based on this approach, a prototype has been implemented with simulated experiments highlighting the effectiveness of the approach.     

基于性能需求的自适应中间件框架

分析影响服务质量的构件资源需求与资源依赖关系模型,提出一种自适应中间件框架。该框架能动态感知负载变化,自适应调整服务器配置参数,确保应用的服务质量。采用回溯算法搜索最优配置,以满足性能需求。以一个信息查询系统作为测试用例进行实验,结果表明,该框架可以提高应用程序的性能。     

卫星通信系统QOS管理的策略提炼

针对基于策略的DVB—RCS卫星通信系统服务质量管理,提出一种策略提炼模型,结合实例给出目标提炼过程。该模型以线性时态逻辑为基础,在提炼模式的辅助下从高层目标中提取出低层策略,可以有效保证策略提炼过程的正确性、合理性及一致性。在系统设计阶段,该模型用于指导系统功能规划与设计,在系统运行阶段,该模型为网络管理人员提供高层策略向系统设备行为的映射方法。     

P2P环境下基于双层代理的服务发现模型

以集中式注册中心为核心的面向服务体系结构和以服务提供商为中心的服务组织模式容易导致用户发现和订阅服务的难度随着服务的增加而增加。针对上述问题,该文提出一种P2P环境下基于双层代理的语义Web服务发现模型。该模型通过双层代理机制实现基于语义的Web服务的发现和匹配,并提供服务质量协商机制。实验表明该模型具有较高的查全率和查准率。     

一种支持QoS约束的语义Web服务发现框架

针对当前语义Web服务发现缺乏QoS约束的问题,构建一个支持QoS约束的语义Web服务发现框架。使用QoS认证中心确保QoS信息的动态更新。基于该框架提出一种支持QoS约束的语义Web服务匹配算法,通过实验证明该框架的有效性和可用性。     

QoS保障机制中的FPGA堆排序实现

针对服务质量（QoS）的实现机制和严格动态优先级排序要求,在交换系统设计中引入一种易于FPGA实现的堆排序算法。采用模块化和状态机相结合的设计方法,给出模块的设计过程,利用XilinxISE8.2i＋ModerSim6.2软件对设计程序进行仿真,将程序下载到实验开发板上对系统进行验证,结果表明该设计的资源利用率高、运行速率快,适用于QoS机制的硬件实现。     

基于移动Agent的无线多媒体传感器网络QoS路由算法

无线多媒体传感器网络(WMSNs)的主要特点包括资源有限、时延敏感和数据冗余性高。此外,音视频数据流传输所需的带宽是多媒体传感器节点所能承受的最大传输带宽的几倍。上述因素使得WMSNs的QoS 路由成为一个亟待解决的关键技术问题。鉴于此,首先通过基于等差数列的非均匀分簇算法对网络区域进行划分,然后在此网络拓扑上,提出一种基于移动Agent的WMSNs的QoS路由算法(MAQR)。MAQR由路由发现和数据传输两个阶段组成。在路由发现阶段,采用移动代理技术完成多路径路由发现。在数据传输阶段,采用多优先级多路径传输模型把数据流进行分类,并利用流量预测算法实现网络的负载均衡。最后,在NS-2平台上实现了MAQR,通过与同类算法进行仿真比较,发现MAQR较之同类算法能够明显地提高音视频传输的服务质量。此外,MAQR算法比同类算法的能耗更低。     

服务组合中面向端到端用户QoS需求的QoS聚合机制研究

服务组合基于多种基本的组合结构,组合多个已有的服务来满足用户的功能性和非功能性(即QoS)需求。通常,用户的需求直接是端到端的需求,而服务描述本身具有自身的QoS描述。由于所处的层次不同,端到端的QoS需求描述和单个服务的QoS描述存在一定的语义鸿沟。基于层次化本体模型建立QoS本体模型,建立了用户QoS和服务QoS之间的映射关系。并针对基本的服务组合结构,研究了异构QoS本体环境下服务的QoS聚合机制。基于基本组合结构的QoS聚合,提出了完整的服务组合中的QoS聚合算法和QoS转换算法,以满足端到端的QoS需求。     

The “Always Best Packet Switching” architecture for SIP-based mobile multimedia services

This paper presents a distributed architecture for the provision of seamless and responsive mobile multimedia services. This architecture allows its user applications to use concurrently all the wireless network interface cards (NICs) a mobile terminal is equipped with. In particular, as mobile multimedia services are usually implemented using the UDP protocol, our architecture enables the transmission of each UDP datagram through the “most suitable” (e.g. most responsive, least loaded) NIC among those available at the time a datagram is transmitted. We term this operating mode of our architecture Always Best Packet Switching (ABPS). ABPS enables the use of policies for load balancing and recovery purposes. In essence, the architecture we propose consists of the following two principal components: (i) a fixed proxy server, which acts as a relay for the mobile node and enables communications from/to this node regardless of possible firewalls and NAT systems, and (ii) a proxy client running in the mobile node responsible for maintaining a multi-path tunnel, constructed out of all the node's NICs, with the above mentioned fixed proxy server. We show how the architecture supports multimedia applications based on the SIP and RTP/RTCP protocols, and avoids the typical delays introduced by the two way message/response handshake of the SIP signaling protocol. Experimental results originated from the implementation of a VoIP application on top of the architecture we propose show the effectiveness of our approach.