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CALIDAD DE SERVICIO (QoS) EN REDES DE NUEVA GENERACIÓN

Professors:

José Ramón Gállego Martínez (jrgalleg@unizar.es)

Julián Fernández Navajas (navajas@unizar.es)

Contents:

The rapid evolution of the networking industry introduces new exciting challenges that need to be explored by the student. The adoption of Internet as the global network infrastructure places the issue of quality of service among one of the hot topics nowadays: a huge diversity of applications with quite different service requirements must be supported over a basic core of protocols. OPNET is used as main tool to study this new exciting challenges and as laboratory research tool to discover the problems and possible solutions for next generation network design.

Key areas covered by the course are:

-        Network Policy

-        Quality of Service

-        Real Time Applications

-        Intelligent Networks

-       Performance Evaluation

Practice 0: Introduction to OPNET

This practice has been thought as an introduction for students that never have used OPNET. We explain all the editors contained in OPNET IT Guru 10.5.

Practice 1: Applications definition and network design

This practice is focused on the applications definition and on the design of a basic network. A simple scenario with two networks interconnected through a couple of routers is deployed. Two kind of transmissions are evaluated: VoIP and FTP.

 

Practice 2: Schedulers

The aim of this practice is to study the effect of different schedulers (FIFO, PQ and WFQ) on the packet transmission for different services. Each router must implement a scheduler that controls how the packets are stored before being transmitted. The queueing strategy of a scheduler can impact both the transmission rate and the packet delay. In this practice, we will study how the election of the service discipline in the routers (FIFO, WFQ y PQ) can affect to the performance of different applications (FTP, Video and VoIP).

 

Practice 3: QoS mechanisms for applications and services

The aims of this practice are to analyze the impact of CAR (Committed Access Rate) and PQ (Priority Queueing) on the applications performance as well as to configure QoS mechanism to guarantee low delay in multimedia applications.

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