We review the development of the concept of effective bandwidth from its origin in the planning and management of ATM networks. We start with the extension...

In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm to compute a bound for the problem of optimizing the power of a number of users sharing a set of wireless chan...

There has been a lot of interest recently on the energy efficiency and environmental impact of wireless networks. Given that the base stations are the netw...

Network characterization and modelling is an important issue to understand and monitor IP network performance, in particular for real-time multimedia appli...

In this paper we investigate the options of a network operator faced with the requirement of reducing its carbon footprint, expressed in terms of a global en...

We investigate the optimal power allocation in an OFDM-SDMA system when some users have minimum requirements for their downlink transmission rate. We first ...

The packet delay variation, commonly called delay jitter, is an important quality of service parameter in IP networks especially for real-time applications. ...

Jitter buffering is a key component in multimedia and real-time services. A jitter buffer is used at the receiver side to control packet rate and to compensa...

We consider multi-antenna base stations using orthogonal frequency-division multiple access and space division multiple access techniques to serve single-a...

Current network planning and design methods use the average delay, packet loss and throughput as metrics to optimize the network cost and performance. New...

The topic of this paper is the evaluation of QoS parameters in live Pre-Wimax environments. The main contribution is the validation of an analytical delay-ji...

Traditionally, IP Network planning and design is mostly based on average delay or loss constraints which can often be easily calculated. Jitter, on the othe...

The convergence of different classes of traffic with different priorities over the wire- less network has become a reality. To insure that the users of key ...

In this paper, we study the problem of determining the capacity requirements for applications that require QoS guarantees. We consider three kinds of source ...

In this article we extend previous work showing that DiffServ can provide some QoS guarantees to both real-time and non real-time traffic in the event of th...

As ISP’s and Telco’s converge towards all-IP network infrastructures, the problem of QoS becomes more acute. To address it, operators are deploying differen...

The increase of bandwidth demand for new Internet applications suggests mapping directly IP over the WDM layer. Since reliability is such a critical issue i...

This paper presents a new heuristic to solve efficiently the problem of dimension- ing large-size hybrid optoelectronic networks with grooming. It is modele...

We consider the design of a hybrid opto-electronic network with grooming. We propose a model in which we take into account the fact that grooming traffic req...

In this paper, we present an optimization model based on cost minimization for traffic engineering of multirate and ATM networks with switched virtual circ...

This paper solves the problem of designing an access tree network for which the users are connected to the switches through SONET channels on fiber optics l...

We present a fast tabu search method for the design of access tree networks. We connect a population of users to a set of switches using a variety of SONET ...

We propose a network design model for flat networks using hybrid optical/electronic equipments. We describe a set of network components that can be taken in...

There is an increasing interest for efficient synthesis methods (routing and dimensioning) of large and robust multi-service networks. In the case of ATM ne...

Multi-commodity flow models are well known and have been widely used in the design of packet-switched networks. They have also been used as approximations ...

Multi-commodity flow models are well known and have been widely used in the design of packet-switched networks. Flow models have also been proposed for the ...

Le problème classique de dimensionnement d'un réseau de télécommunications se formule en général comme suit: étant donné un réseau, une matrice de trafic et...

Le problème classique d'optimisation de la capacité des réseaux de télécommunications s'énonce comme suit: pour un réseau dont la structure, la demande et l...