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Communication Networks Laboratory

The Communication Networks Laboratory highlights the interests and activities of its two principals Ljiljana Trajkovic and Stephen Hardy. Current activities encompass wireline and wireless data networks, with emphasis on traffic modeling and characterization, simulation of network protocols and algorithms, and analysis of network performance.

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Professor Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic

Research projects

DAWN

  • Data mining on billing traces of wireless network
  • Modeling and characterization of traffic in public safety wireless networks
  • Modeling and performance analysis of public safety wireless networks
  • Adapting ad hoc network concepts to land mobile radio systems
  • Wavelet-based analysis of long-range dependent video traces
  • Wavelet analysis of traffic traces and packet loss
  • TCP session analysis and modeling of hybrid satellite-terrestrial Internet traffic
  • Measurement and analysis of hybrid satellite-terrestrial Internet traffic
  • Spectral analysis of the Internet topology
  • Understanding network customers' behavior from billing traces
  • Using AutoClass for exploring demographic structure of Internet users

    ICON

  • Modeling of TCP with active queue management schemes
  • Characterization of a simple communication network using Legendre transform
  • Delay and throughput differentiation mechanism for non-elevated services
  • Simulation of loss patterns in video transfers over UDP and TCP
  • Analysis and simulation of wireless data network traffic

    SIMON

  • Integrating ns-BGP with the ns-2.34 network simulator
  • Integrating ns-BGP with the ns-2.33 network simulator
  • Improving the Performance of the Gnutella Network
  • BGP Route Flap Damping Algorithms
  • BGP with an Adaptive Minimal Route Advertisement Interval
  • Implementation of BGP in a Network Simulator
  • Selective-TCP for wired/wireless networks
  • TCP over wireless networks
  • Modeling and performance evaluation of a General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) network using OPNET
  • Simulation of General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) network system using OPNET
  • Traffic engineering prioritized IP packets over Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network
  • Enhancements and performance evaluation of wireless local area networks
  • Route optimization of mobile IP over IPv4
  • Implementation and performance simulation of VirtualClock scheduling algorithm in IP networks
  • Simulation of quality of service parameters in IP networks
  • OPNET modeling and simulation of CDPD MAC layer behavior
  • OPNET modeling and simulation of Deficit Round Robin scheduling algorithm for IP networks

    Various projects

  • Performance measurements of multimedia traffic in an IP over ATM local area network
  • How to evaluate field test performance for a CDMA2000 handset
  • Convergence behavior of RIP and OSPF network protocols
  • Hardware implementation of a high-speed symmetric crossbar switch
  • Simulation of transistor circuits: effect of model parameters

    OPNET-specific projects


    Professor Dr. Stephen Hardy

    Research projects

    • Performance analysis of high-performance packet networks
    • Simulation of protocols, connection admission, scheduling, and congestion control algorithms in packet networks
    • Traffic collection, characterization, and modeling in packet networks
    • Intelligent control of communication systems
    • Performance analysis of high speed LAN's
    • End-to-end performance improvements in wireless networks
    • Traffic modeling in wireless data networks
    • Real-time traffic performance in wireless LAN's
    • Bandwidth analysis in a wireless LAN testbed
    • Estimation and prediction of ATM traffic.

    Facilities

    • Hardware:
      • 3 ATM Newbridge MainStreet 36150 switches
      • 1 Sun Ultra 30
      • 6 Sun Ultra 10
      • 1 Sun Ultra 5
      • 1 Sun Sparc 2 (still alive and well :-)
      • 8 Pentium PC's
      • 1 Sony VAIO notebook
      • 1 Dell notebook
    • Software:
      • Operating systems: Solaris, SUN OS, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows NT
      • Network simulation tools: Opnet, ns-2, Ptolemy
      • Clustering tools: AutoClass
      • Statistical tools: SPlus

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