Author's Department/Program
Computer Science and Engineering
Language
English (en)
Date of Award
January 2009
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Chair and Committee
Sergey Gorinsky
Abstract
The diversity of applications served by the explosively growing Internet is increasing. In particular, applications that are sensitive to end-to-end packet delays become more common and include telephony, video conferencing, and networked games. While the single best-effort service of the current Internet favors throughput-greedy traffic by equipping congested links with large buffers, long queuing at the congested links hurts the delay-sensitive applications. Furthermore, while numerous alternative architectures have been proposed to offer diverse network services, the innovative alternatives failed to gain widespread end-to-end deployment. This dissertation explores different networking mechanisms for supporting low queueing delay required by delay-sensitive applications. In particular, it considers two different approaches. The first one assumes employing congestion control protocols for the traffic generated by the considered class of applications. The second approach relies on the router operation only and does not require support from end hosts.
Recommended Citation
Podlesny, Maxim, "Networking Mechanisms for Delay-Sensitive Applications" (2009). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 278.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/278
Comments
Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7668B7G