{"title":"Quality codec interface for VoIP on differentiated services networks","authors":"Ahmad Zmily, Dirar Abu-Saymeh","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654563","url":null,"abstract":"As converged services are becoming the standard for corporate networks, concerns have been arising on the best way to ensure efficient use of expensive WAN bandwidth. Achieving excellent quality of multimedia and voice communication requires the allocation of large bandwidth for these services. In most cases, lossy compression codecs are used to reduce bandwidth requirements resulting in lower quality of service. The codec selection is maintained even during low bandwidth utilization. In this paper, we present a codec interface that combines high-fidelity high-bitrate and low-fidelity low-bitrate codecs. Audio packets from the low-bitrate codec are transmitted on the highest priority class of service of differentiated services networks. This ensures that these packets always arrive at destination. Audio packets from the high-bitrate codec are transmitted on the lowest priority class of service. At low bandwidth utilization, the high-fidelity high-bitrate packets will be used and during congestions, these packets would be dropped. This ensures achieving the best possible voice quality during varying network loads. Simulation results measuring the mean opinion score of voice quality show that superior voice quality can be achieved with this method over using standalone codecs while maintaining excellent quality of service for data traffic as well.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115023699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Cuadra, M. Cutanda, A. Aurelius, K. Brunnström, J. E. Vergara, M. Varela, J. Laulajainen, A. Morais, A. Cavalli, A. Mellouk, B. Augustin, Ismael Perez-Mateos
{"title":"Ecosystem for customer experience assurance","authors":"A. Cuadra, M. Cutanda, A. Aurelius, K. Brunnström, J. E. Vergara, M. Varela, J. Laulajainen, A. Morais, A. Cavalli, A. Mellouk, B. Augustin, Ismael Perez-Mateos","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654553","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays service providers focus all their effort on customers' satisfaction although determining the Quality of Experience (QoE) is not a trivial task. In addition, the evolution from traditional networks towards Next Generation Networks (NGN) is enabling service providers to deploy a wide range of multimedia services such as Internet Television (IPTV), Video on Demand (VoD), and multiplayer games services, all on the same underlying IP network. However, managing the satisfaction level of customers to provide a good user experience is not being an easy task due to the complexity of orchestrating network and customer data sources. This document proposes an ecosystem that allows managing customer experience in order to guarantee the quality levels delivered to end users, which is being implemented into the Celtic IPNQSIS project. The QoE ecosystem lies on a customer experience architecture formed by Data acquisition level, Monitoring level and Control Level. The work proposed in this paper will settle the basis of next generation Customer Experience Management systems.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115284781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance evaluation of Dynamic-Power AODV, AOMDV, AODV and DSR protocols in MANETs","authors":"A. Bamhdi, P. King","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654577","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) are networks formed by mobile radio nodes without supporting infrastructure. The mobility of the radios means that the topology of the network is constantly changing. If there is a high density of radios, then the throughput of the network will be reduced because of mutual interference. In order to solve this problem, the Dynamic Power Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (DP-AODV) was developed. It attempts to adjust transmission power, based on the node density, to keep a constant number of radios within range of each other. Our protocol determines the power required to preserve connectivity through the nodes, in order to decrease interference and power consumption, as well as to improve the network throughput. In this paper, we present some results on the performance of DP-AODV, on the basis of comparisons with the standard protocols Ad-Hoc On-Demand Multipath Distance Vector (AOMDV), Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). Simulation results show that DP-AODV gives better performance than AODV and DSR in all situations, but AOMDV gives better in delay than the others.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116989947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Muñoz, R. Muñoz, Juan Rodríguez, V. López, Ó. D. Dios, J. Fernández-Palacios
{"title":"End-to-end service provisioning across MPLS and IP/WDM domains","authors":"F. Muñoz, R. Muñoz, Juan Rodríguez, V. López, Ó. D. Dios, J. Fernández-Palacios","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654561","url":null,"abstract":"Metro and core networks have been traditionally designed and managed by different departments within network operators. Moreover, even in the cases where both metro and core networks are based on the same technology, e.g. MPLS, services need to be provided separately per domain. This historic separation is now being questioned in light of the potential cost efficiency and lower time-to-market that an end-to-end service provisioning could bring, especially in a cloud ready context, where the traffic demands are less predictable and fast provisioning is needed. This paper presents the drivers, enablers and challenges for an end-to-end service provisioning, in which a multi-layer IP/MPLS over WDM core and MPLS based metro networks are coordinated to support dynamic service provisioning. The feasibility of the end-to-end service provisioning is demonstrated in an experimental activity using commercial IP/MPLS routers, optical nodes and a network controller triggering control plane mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132243532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Hernando, J. L. D. de Vergara, D. Madrigal, F. Mata
{"title":"Evaluating quality of experience in IPTV services using MPEG frame loss rate","authors":"D. Hernando, J. L. D. de Vergara, D. Madrigal, F. Mata","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654554","url":null,"abstract":"Current network services such as Voice over IP or IP Television pose new challenges to network providers. Network operators need to know if their services are being properly provided. However, current quality of service parameters commonly used in data networks (e.g. throughput, packet delays, packet losses, etc.) do not show a clear view of what the users are experiencing. Thus, it is necessary to translate such measured quality parameters into a quality of experience value. Several models are being developed to cope with this problem. For instance, some approaches have used the packet loss rate to evaluate the experienced quality of an IP television channel. Unfortunately, packet loss just explains a fraction of the quality behavior. Then, we go one step further, taking into account the different MPEG frame types that are transmitted. In this paper, we have defined a model to predict the experienced quality that is a function of the loss of the different types of MPEG frames, providing a mean opinion score of the delivered service. The final results show that our model is able to better predict the quality of experience of such video services than just using the packet loss rate.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133771170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Estrella M. Garcia-Lozano, Carolina Tripp Barba, M. Aguilar Igartua, Celeste Campo
{"title":"A distributed, bandwidth-efficient accident prevention system for interurban VANETs","authors":"Estrella M. Garcia-Lozano, Carolina Tripp Barba, M. Aguilar Igartua, Celeste Campo","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654564","url":null,"abstract":"Road safety has become a main issue for governments and car manufacturers in the last twenty years. The concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is used when talking about communication technologies between vehicles and infrastructure to improve, among others, road safety. In this paper, we propose a warning service to prevent accidents by alerting drivers about accidents and dangerous road conditions. This service includes the definition of a new broadcast dissemination mechanism. A VANET highway scenario is simulated to evaluate how the use of safety schemes decreases the driver's reaction time when an unexpected situation occurs.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115531259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Nordell, A. Aurelius, A. Gavler, Å. Arvidsson, M. Kihl
{"title":"Concurrency and locality of content demand","authors":"V. Nordell, A. Aurelius, A. Gavler, Å. Arvidsson, M. Kihl","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654552","url":null,"abstract":"Distribution of media data over the Internet is increasing in popularity and volume. This poses challenges not only for network operators but also for service providers when it comes to serving the demand in a cost-efficient way. In this paper, we approach this problem by investigating the potential of co-operative approaches where locality in space (users in the same network) and locality in time (concurrent downloads) are exploited such that as many requests as possible may be handled inside the access and metro networks. This approach may contribute not only to reducing transport costs (less traffic in core networks and at peering points) by but also improve the end user experience (by reduced round trip times and exclusion of some possible bottlenecks). To this end we develop a method to measure the possible gains from, firstly, optimal handling of concurrent downloads and, secondly, optimal utilization local availability. We apply the method to BitTorrent data from two metropolitan access networks and find that the bandwidth savings amount to between 10% and 20% when optimizing concurrent downloads and between 56% and 66% when exploiting local availability with a simulated network cache.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122355283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EV-planning: Electric vehicle itinerary planning","authors":"S. Mehar, S. Senouci, Guillaume F. Remy","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654583","url":null,"abstract":"In the latest few years, lot of efforts have been done to pave the way to sustainable mobility, in order to solve pollution problems and fuel shortage. The use of electric vehicles (EV) is considered as one of the best ecologic and economic solution. However, autonomy barriers and limitations slow the progress and the deployment of this technology. In this paper, we propose an advanced electric vehicles' fleet management architecture. This architecture considers the most important factors that can affect the traveling mode of electric vehicles, in order to offer different services to fleet management companies for an efficient monitoring and management of their fleets. One of the most important service, considered in this paper, consists on providing economic itineraries planning for electric vehicles. Best routes, in term of electric power consumption, are computed based on the collected information about road topology (elevation variations, source, destination, etc.), weather conditions, vehicle characteristics, driver profile, traffic conditions and electric charging stations positions. In case of battery drop, new routes passing through the nearest available charging stations are recalculated and provided to the driver. To prove the concept, we implemented a lightweight traffic management server that provides this itinerary planning service to an EV fleet company. The server provides a web application to book an EV and plan the trip. All possible itineraries are displayed on a map with electric power consumption, traveled distance and duration details. Then, the server uploads the chosen itinerary into the vehicle's GPS or into the driver's smartphone.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"328 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116347836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A cross layer solution to improve TCP performances in Ad Hoc wireless networks","authors":"Yassine Douga, Malika Bourenane","doi":"10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SACONET.2013.6654575","url":null,"abstract":"We present in this paper a novel approach to improve TCP performance in the mobile wireless networks (MANET). The proposed protocol, designated as HYBRID TCP, is essentially an extension of the original IEEE 802.11 standard and the TCP-Reno protocol. By making some modifications using a cross layer solution to the legacy IEEE 802.11 MAC and TCP-Reno protocol, HYBRID TCP provides a significant improvement in the performance of TCP in multi-hop wireless environments by taking in consideration the mobility of nodes, the interferences and solves the problem of multi-hops. The performance of HYBRID TCP is compared to that of standard TCP-Reno scheme and to a recent improvement of TCP performed on the basis of the signal strength in terms of achieved effective throughput and of transmission time. The numerical results reveal that HYBRID TCP achieves a significant improvement in the TCP transmission performance over mobile multi-hop wireless networks.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125531475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On modeling geometric joint sink mobility with delay-tolerant cluster-less Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"M. Akbar, N. Javaid, A. Khan, Z. Khan, U. Qasim","doi":"10.1109/SaCoNeT.2013.6654586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SaCoNeT.2013.6654586","url":null,"abstract":"In recent study Moving Sink (MS) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) appears as a blessing. Because it collects data directly from the nodes and the concept of relay nodes is obsolete in this scheme. There are few challenges to be taken care of, like data delay tolerance and trajectory of MS which is NP-hard. In our proposed scheme, we divide the square field in small squares. Middle point of the partitioned area is the sojourn location of the sink, and nodes around MS are in it transmission range, they send directly the sensed data in a delay-tolerant fashion. Simultaneously two sinks are moving one is inside and having four sojourn locations and other is outer trajectory and have twelve sojourn locations. Introducing joint mobility is enhancing the network life and ultimately throughput. As the MS comes under the NP-hard problem here we convert it into a geometric problem and define it as, Geometric Sink Movement (GSM). Also there is set of linear programming equations supporting the model, and prolonging network life time.","PeriodicalId":187635,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Smart Communications in Network Technologies (SaCoNeT)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126514229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}