{"title":"An efficient on-demand routing protocol for MANETs using Bayesian approach","authors":"Rusheel Jain, Murali Parameswaran, C. Hota","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716496","url":null,"abstract":"Ad-hoc wireless networks consist of mobile nodes interconnected by multihop-communication paths with no fixed network infrastructure or administrative support. One of the typical routing methods in mobile ad-hoc networks use on-demand distance vector, e.g. Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV). The major issue in such a protocol is the route establishment cost. In this paper, we are suggesting an efficient routing algorithm for mobile ad-hoc networks with a route establishment technique using Bayesian approach. The initial results show that there is significant improvement in delivery ratio, control packets overhead w.r.t. mobility and control packet overhead w.r.t. network size.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115518410","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 petri nets based model for multipoint synchronization in audio conferencing","authors":"K. Pal, P. Upadhyay, Animesh Dutta","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716511","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed multimedia application over IP network is an evolving paradigm for the researcher in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). There are several applications of this technology—video conferencing, tele-teaching, telemedicine and any collaborative application. Maintaining the satisfactory Quality Of Service [1,2] and synchronization is a big challenge to the researcher in this field. In this paper, we address multipoint synchronization or inter destination synchronization as an issue, involving the play out process of same stream at different receivers at the same time to achieve fairness among the receivers. In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm for achieving multipoint synchronization and we also model the algorithm with an extension of Petri Nets and verify its correctness.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116823278","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 parameter-influencer based model of a Self-healing network","authors":"H. Raghunandan, S. Bedekar","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716506","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomic features can be built into systems by including Self-* properties. There is a dire need to find new techniques of building in Self-* features in networks for delivering important goals like maintaining uptime and QoS, since system adminstrators are crying for help as complexity of networks and their management systems continues to grow unabatedly and managing them effectively and efficiently turning out to be a veritable nightmare. In this paper we describe how a correlation based parameter-influencer model can be used to build in Self-healing features in a network. We describe various combinations of parameters and influencers which can be used to model features of varying complexity that can be added to networking systems. Statistical techniques like linear regression are used to identify positive and negative correlation amongst parameters and influencers and changes made by the Autonomic Manager(AM) or the network management systems (NMS) to bring the network to a state of stability and thus reduce downtime. Our model is programmed as daemon on the network and two case studies are described where historical data is used to tune the network parameters more accurately. The first demonstrates how uptime can be sustained and the second demonstrates how performance (and in turn QoS) can be maintained.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127471221","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":"Multi-state power management of communication links","authors":"K. Kant","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716487","url":null,"abstract":"The continuing speed increases of communication links at all levels from intra-server interconnects all the way to WAN results an increasing amount of network power consumption. Thus an effective, multi-level and multi-scale power management of communication links is increasingly important. In this paper we propose algorithms that can reduce link power consumption by exploiting three key attributes: (a) available non-operational low power (or sleep) states, (b) link width modulation, and (c) link speed modulation. Although shutting down inactive links at coarse time scales is well known, our emphasis is primarily on finer-time granularities and can be used in addition to coarse grain methods. The paper explores considerations in designing such algorithms and provides some specific algorithms and their parameterization. We show that the link width modulation is the most attractive alternative when available, but other controls are also useful. The techniques explored can be applied to a wide variety of links in modern systems.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126084324","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}
Vijay Gabale, Ashish Chiplunkar, B. Raman, P. Dutta
{"title":"DelayCheck: Scheduling voice over multi-hop multi-channel wireless mesh networks","authors":"Vijay Gabale, Ashish Chiplunkar, B. Raman, P. Dutta","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716467","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we consider the goal of scheduling the maximum number of voice calls in a TDMA-based multi-radio, multi-channel mesh network. One of the main challenges to achieve this goal is the difficulty in providing strict (packet-level) delay guarantees for voice traffic in capacity limited multi-hop wireless networks. In this context, we propose DelayCheck, an online centralized scheduling and call-admission-control (CAC) algorithm which effectively schedules constant-bit-rate voice traffic in TDMA-based mesh networks. DelayCheck solves the joint routing, channel assignment and link scheduling problem while satisfying the constraint. We formulate an offline version of this scheduling problem as an Integer Linear Program (ILP), the LP relaxation of which gives us an optimality upper bound. We compare the output of DelayCheck with the LP-based upper bound as well as with two state-of-the-art prior scheduling algorithms. DelayCheck performs remarkably well, accepting about 93% of voice calls as compared to LP-based upper bound. As compared to state-of-the-art algorithms, DelayCheck improves scheduler efficiency by more than 34% and reduces call rejections by 2 fold. We also demonstrate that DelayCheck efficiently exploits the number of channels available for scheduling. With implementation optimizations, we show that DelayCheck has low memory and CPU requirements, thus making it practical.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128637839","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":"Three metrics for stochastic networks: Capacity, queue-size and complexity","authors":"D. Shah","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716504","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a class of constrained queuing network called switched networks, important sub-class of the stochastic processing network (cf. Harrison (2000)), in which there are constraints on which queues can be served simultaneously. Such networks have served as effective models for understanding various types of dynamic resource allocation problems arising in communication networks like the Internet, computer architecture, manufacturing, etc. In such systems, a scheduling policy is required to make resource allocation decisions in terms of which queues to serve at each time subject to constraints. The performance of the system is crucially determined by the scheduling policy. The performance of such scheduling policies, measured with respect to the following three metrics is of utmost importance: (a) capacity, (b) induced queue-sizes or latency, and (c) complexity of the implementation of the policy. Ideally, one is interested in determining the trade-offs achievable between these metrics characterized through the pareto performance boundary. In this note, we shall summarize the state-of-art along with recent progresses towards this somewhat ambitious program.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114687554","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}
Amarjeet Singh, Vinayak Naik, Sangeeta Lal, R. Sengupta, D. Saxena, Pushpendra Singh, A. Puri
{"title":"Improving the efficiency of healthcare delivery system in underdeveloped rural areas","authors":"Amarjeet Singh, Vinayak Naik, Sangeeta Lal, R. Sengupta, D. Saxena, Pushpendra Singh, A. Puri","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716519","url":null,"abstract":"A low doctor-to-patient ratio in rural areas of under-developed regions results in an inefficient and expensive delivery of healthcare. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) could play an important role in improving the efficiency and making healthcare more affordable. In this position paper, we present an architectural framework to use ICT (specifically mobile technology) for efficient delivery of healthcare to masses. The proposed framework is (1) comprehensive to cover majority of critical diseases (2) sound from medical science point of view, (3) interfacable to Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, and (4) self-learning in order automatically diagnose and predict future outbreaks. We present preliminary data and share social experiences from a pilot conducted for preliminary detection of Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) in rural areas of Punjab, India. We also propose an outline for future study for diagnosing Leptospirosis in rural areas of Gujarat, India.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"189 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114755951","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":"Designing WANem : A Wide Area Network emulator tool","authors":"Hemanta Kumar Kalitay, Manoj K. Nambiarz","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716495","url":null,"abstract":"Software developers are never exposed to production networks which is mostly Wide Area Network (WAN) during the development and unit test cycle. This leads to poor performing applications in production. Often the reason for such poor performance is attributed to the network. Hence it is important for the developers to know the behavior of their applications on various types of networks users will access the application from. However, access to such networks is restricted to a developer who tests his application over a local area network. A local area network (LAN) often has more than the required bandwidth required by an application. Hence a device, which will emulate various network behaviors is required, something which will help developers to better understand the behavior of their application on various networks. In response to this need WANem is designed and developed which can emulate real WAN networks in a development or test environment inside a LAN. In this paper we will discuss the architecture of WANem and show how it affects application performance.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131266731","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":"Service-level control and management for future network applications","authors":"K. Ravindran, S. Mukhopadhyay","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716513","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is on generic service-level management tools that enable the reconfiguration of a distributed network application whenever there are resource-level changes or failures in the underlying network sub-systems. We present a formal model-based approach for monitoring compliance and adapting the system in response. In our model, the management entity maintains policy scripts and rules to coordinate the application-level reconfigurations and adaptations in response to the changes/outages in the underlying network services. The paper presents a case study of rate-adaptive video multicast over IP-based infrastructure networks, to demonstrate the usefulness of our management model. The model offers an end-to-end framework for the development of Future Internet applications.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132234947","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":"Study of combined effects of zero copy and pre-processing on Input/Output performance of multimedia on demand streaming server","authors":"V. Singh, Suhas Hegde Ankadi, D. Das","doi":"10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2011.5716477","url":null,"abstract":"The growing broadband internet connectivity has made services like Media on Demand (MoD) and News on Demand (NoD) a huge business. Media servers play an important role and critical part of providing real time MoD services. The major challenges are the handling of multimedia files and their real time streaming, which require fast processing as well as transmission of multimedia by the server. One of the important features of media server design is Input/Output (I/O) performance of multimedia files to network. This performance also affects the overall delay in case of end-to-end QoS. In this paper, we have proposed an idea to improve the I/O performance by enhancing zero copy methodology with pre-processed multimedia. Our proposed idea's implementation results present five times reduction of total transmission and processing time delay in comparison to without zero copying and pre-processing in media server. Moreover, there is a 15% reduction in CPU usage of the multimedia server.","PeriodicalId":302678,"journal":{"name":"2011 Third International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132594221","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}