Broadband Networking: Models and Techniques for Control, Design and Management

Debasis Mitra, AT&T

Scope and Audience

This tutorial is designed for researchers, analysts and students who are interested in models and techniques for the control, design and management of broadband networks. System designers and architects interested in abstracting and analyzing such networks will also find it useful. This broadly based tutorial will draw selectively from the vast array of important, interesting networking concepts and techniques which have recently been introduced. It will emphasize the interpretation of results through figures and physical arguments. Topics covered in the tutorial include:

Outline

Fundamentals
- Traffic characteristics and source models
- Theories for networks
- Quality of service guarantees
- Traffic regulation: shaping and policing
- Multiplexing
Network Control
- Scheduling, priorities
- Call admission control
- Pricing
Feedback-Based Flow Control
- Binary feedback and response-time algorithms
- Models of delayed-feedback network control, max-min fairness
- ABR services
Network Design and Management
- Call level modelling by multirate loss networks
- Control techniques for loss networks
- Route and logical network design
- Real time routing

Lecturer

Debasis Mitra received the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from London University in 1967. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in 1968. Since 1986 he has been Head, Mathematics of Networks and Systems Department. During the Fall semester of 1984 he was Visiting Mckay Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In the past he has been involved in the development of asymptotic theories for large queueing networks and their incorporation in the software package PANACEA, asynchronous computations for parallel processors, kanban manufacturing models and state-dependent routing on circuit-switched networks. Recently his interests have been exclusively in broadband networking. Dr. Mitra is the recipient of awards given by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom, the Bell System Technical Journal, the 1995 ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Conference, and of the Steven O. Rice Prize Paper Award and the Guillemin-Cauer Prize Paper Award of the IEEE. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the editorial board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Queueing Systems (QUESTA), Performance Evaluation and the Journal of High Speed Networks.

Last modified: October 18, 1995