Project : armor

Section: Scientific Foundations

Keywords : Resource allocation, congestion control, throughput control, traffic control, traffic engineering, service differentiation, dimensioning, availability, reliability, queues, IP, interconnection, interoperability, discrete event models, fluid flow models, multicast, multimedia, performability, metrology, performance, Markov chains, stochastic processes, protocols, QoS (quality of service), high speed networks, network reliability, end-to-end protocols, security, simulation, dependability, pricing, Monte Carlo techniques, testing, header compression.

Introduction

The scientific foundations of our work are those of network design and network analysis. More specifically, this concerns the principles of packet switching and in particular of IP networks (protocol design, protocol testing, routing, scheduling techniques), and the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of the problems, on which our methods and tools are based.

These foundations are described in the following paragraphs. We begin by a subsection dedicated to Quality of Service, since this concept can be seen as a unifying concept of our activities. Then we briefly describe the specific sub-area of models' evaluation and about the particular multidisciplinary domain of pricing problems.