Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks Supporting Mobility, Multimedia, and Internetworking
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Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks Supporting Mobility, Multimedia, and Internetworking COST Action 279 Final Report Edited by
JOSE BRAZIO PHUOC TRAN-GIA NAIL AKAR ANDRZEJ BEBEN WOJCIECH BURAKOWSKI MARKUS FIEDLER EZHAN KARASAN MICHAEL MENTH OLIVIER PHILIPPE KURT TUTSCHKU SABINE WITTEVRONGEL COST Action 279
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Preface This book constitutes the Final Report of COST Action 279, Analysis and Design of Advanced Multiservice Networks supporting Multimedia, Mobility, and Interworking, a guided tour of the state-of-the-art work on diverse aspects of modern telecommunications networks design developed within this Action during the four years of its operation, started on July 1, 2001, and ended on June 30, 2005. As stated in its founding charter, its Memorandum of Understanding, the work area of COST 279 is the analysis, design, and control aspects of presentday networks—quite a wide scope. Behind the unifying fac¸ade put on by the Internet Protocol (IP) network layer, todays networks hide a mess of heterogeneity: heterogeneity at the level of applications, both concerning the traffic they produce and the network Quality of Service (QoS) they require, and heterogeneity at the level of network component subsystems, in particular an increasingly important mobile/wireless access segment. A common ground for the treatment of this disparate set of topics was given by the strong methodological component contained in the approach followed in COST 279, with importance placed on the development and application, whenever possible, of analytical techniques and models for the mathematical understanding of the systems under study. The results expected from the Action ranged thus from mathematical models and algorithms as entities of own interest to the understanding of system behavior via their application. Explicit value was also given to contributions to progress in basic issues, such as queueing theory and estimation and identification in stochastic models, in recognition of their status as key elements for the understanding of the behavior of networks and for their design. During its period of operation, COST 279 was a crucible for a very fruitful interaction among a sizeable group of European researchers exhibiting a re
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