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whitepaper Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Peer-to-Peer Applications on Traffic in Commercial IP Networks2007-01-01 France Telecom
  To evaluate the impact of peer-to-peer applications on traffic in wide area networks, the paper analyzes measurements from a high speed IP backbone link carrying TCP traffic towards several ADSL areas. The first observations are that the prevalent part of traffic is due to peer-to-peer applications (almost 80% of total traffic) and that the usage of network becomes symmetric in the sense that customers are not only clients but also servers. This latter point is observed by the significant proportion of long flows mainly composed of ACK segments. When analyzing the bit rate created by long flows, it turns out that the TCP connections due to peer-to-peer applications have a rather small bit rate and that there is no evidence for long range dependence.

Tags: IP Technologies		   
whitepaper Congestion Control: SCTP Vs TCP2007-01-01 University of Delaware
  This paper characterizes an inefficiency in the current speciation of SCTP's congestion control, which degrades performance (more than necessary to be 'TCP-friendly') when there are multiple packet losses in a single window. It presents an SCTP variant, called New-Reno SCTP, which introduces three medications. First, a Fast Recovery mechanism, similar to that of New-Reno TCP, is included to avoid multiple congestion window (cwnd) reductions in a single round-trip time. Second, a new policy is introduced which restricts the cwnd from being increased during Fast Recovery, thus ensuring that the newly introduced Fast Recovery mechanism maintains conservative behavior. Third, it modifies SCTP's HTNA (Highest TSN Newly Acked) algorithm to ensure that Fast Retransmits are not unnecessarily delayed.

Tags: IP Technologies		   
whitepaper Cisco and the Service Provider IP Next-Generation Network Journey2007-01-01 Cisco Systems
  As intense competition continues to erode their profitability, service providers are accelerating their transition to an IP-based Next-Generation Network (NGN). Service providers require innovative, converged infrastructures to improve delivery of current services and provide a scalable framework for tomorrow's new, bandwidth-intensive services. Solutions that provide greater network intelligence, integration, and flexibility will not only give carriers short-term relief but also position them to seize new market opportunities. These solutions are part of a larger vision - the Cisco IP NGN - encompassing a broad transformation of not only the service provider's network, but its entire business. The IP NGN empowers service providers to meet the needs of all customer segments efficiently and economically while providing the basis for delivering applications that enable sustainable profitability.

Tags: Network Design		   
whitepaper Multicast Network Management2006-12-01 Cisco Systems
  This paper provides an overview of the instrumentation, tools, and solutions that enable the management of Cisco IP multicast deployments. The paper focuses on the areas of fault, configuration, and performance management. The methods and solutions employed to monitor and control resource-usage accounting and security for an IP multicast deployment do not differ from any other network, and are, therefore, covered other Cisco reference documents.

Tags: IP Technologies		   
whitepaper Supporting the IP Multimedia Subsystem for Mobile, Wireline, and Cable Providers2006-12-01 Cisco Systems
  Today's digital-age consumers demand much more than faster network access and service reliability. The empowered subscriber requires ubiquitous access, personalization, and rich connected experiences that they can control and share. Subscribers connect to an array of services through a wide spectrum of both wired and wireless access mediums. This paper describes how the Cisco Service Exchange Framework aligns with the evolution of IMS (IP Multimedia) System-based services and standards to enable multimedia service support. Efforts within specific standards bodies to create open, standards-based architectures and technologies for data, voice, and video services in mobile, wireline, and cable networks are also discussed.

Tags: Multimedia		   
whitepaper A Generic Application-Level Protocol Analyzer and Its Language2006-11-30 Microsoft
  The Shield project relied on application protocol analyzers to detect potential exploits of application vulnerabilities. This paper presents the design of a second-generation Generic Application-level Protocol Analyzer (GAPA) that encompasses a domain-specific language and the associated run-time. This paper designed GAPA to satisfy three important goals: safety, real-time analysis and response, and rapid development of analyzers. The paper has found that these goals are relevant for many network monitors that implement protocol analysis. Therefore, it built GAPA to be readily integrated into tools such as Ethereal as well as Shield.

Tags: Programming Languages, Software Engineering		   
whitepaper Impact of Background Traffic on Performance of High-Speed TCP Variant Protocols2006-11-29 North Carolina State University
  This paper examines the effect of background traffic on the performance of existing high-speed TCP variant protocols, namely BIC-TCP, CUBIC, FAST, HSTCP, H-TCP and Scalable TCP. It also demonstrates that the stability, link utilization, convergence speed and fairness of the protocols are clearly affected by the variability of flow sizes and round-trip times (RTTs), and the amount of background flows competing with high-speed flows in a bottleneck router.

Tags: IP Technologies		   
whitepaper Monitoring and Maintaining ARP Information2006-11-17 Cisco Systems
  Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is an Internet protocol used to map an IP address to a Media Access Control (MAC) address. ARP finds the MAC address, also known as the hardware address, of an IP-routed host from its known IP address and maintains this mapping information in a table. The router uses this IP address and MAC address mapping information to send IP packets to the next-hop router in the network. Development of additional ARP information monitoring and maintenance capabilities is an incremental step within an overall program to improve the management tools for ARP support in a Cisco IOS environment.

Tags: IP Technologies		   
whitepaper Deploying IPv6 in Branch Networks2006-11-07 Cisco Systems
  This paper provides a brief overview of the various branch IPv6 deployment profiles and general deployment considerations. The paper also covers the implementation details for each branch profile individually. In addition to configurations, the full configurations for each branch device can be found in the paper. The focus of this paper is on the branch-side of the WAN, but the basic configurations used on the HQ WAN routers are shown. These configurations were used for testing only and are not necessarily the recommended WAN router configurations the customer should use.

Tags: TCP - IP, IP Technologies		   
whitepaper IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS): Restructuring an Industry2006-11-01 Alcatel-Lucent
  IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) technology and the convergence of fixed and mobile network service providers will make niche market service development, delivery and marketing faster and much less costly. In so doing, IMS will redefine communication services and how people interact with one another in a multimedia world. This fundamental change will be accompanied by major transformations to service providers' business processes. Those that embrace this technology with a solid business plan can completely restructure the industry. This paper looks at the changing needs of end users, what end users expect from their communication services, and how IMS can help service providers address these changing user expectations, quickly and cost-effectively.

Tags: Telecom Services, IP Technologies, Multimedia		   


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