Some Papers on Network Performance Evaluation

Fluid, Numerical, and Other Models

  1. J. Bolot, A.U. Shankar, B. Plateau. Performance Analysis of Transport Protocols over Congestive Channels. Performance Evaluation , vol 11, pp 45-65, 1990. (Structured Markov model and numerical solution.)

  2. J-C. Bolot, A.U. Shankar. ( Analysis of a Fluid Approximation to Flow Control Dynamics (145K ps.gz). Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '92, pp 2398-2407, May 1992, Florence, Italy. (Deterministic fluid model of rate-based flow control over high latency channels.)

    Check out Bolot home page for more papers on modeling and evaluations of voice, video, and web on the Internet.

  3. I. Matta, A.U. Shankar. Type-of-service Routing in Dynamic Datagram Networks (116K ps.gz). IEEE Journal of Selected Areas on Communuications , Special Issue on Internetworking, October 1995.

MaRS (Maryland Routing Simulator)

  1. C. Alaettinoglu, A.U. Shankar, K. Dussa-Zieger, I. Matta. ( Design and Implementation of MaRS: A Routing Testbed. (124K ps.gz). Journal of Internetworking--- Research and Experience, vol 5, no 1, pp 17-41, March 1994.

  2. A.U. Shankar, C. Alaettinoglu, I. Matta, K. Dussa-Zieger. ( Transient and Steady-State Performance of Routing (143K ps.Z). Journal of Internetworking--- Research and Experience , June 1995. Preliminary version appeared in ACM SIGMETRICS '92.

Hierarchical Routing

  1. C. Alaettinoglu, A.U. Shankar. The Viewserver Hierarchy for Inter-Domain Routing: Protocols and Evaluation (100K ps.gz) IEEE Journal of Selected Areas on Communuications, Special Issue on Internetworking, October 1995.

  2. C. Alaettinoglu, A.U. Shankar. Hierarchical Inter-Domain Routing Protocol with On-Demand ToS and Policy Resolution. (113K ps.gz). CS-TR-3299, June 1994. Preliminary version appeared in IEEE ICNP '93

Z-iteration

  1. I. Matta, A.U. Shankar. Z-iteration: Efficient Estimation of Instantaneous Measures in Time-Dependent Multi-Class Systems. (187K ps.Z). CS-TR-3361.1, July 1995. Preliminary version appeared in ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE '95 .

  2. I. Matta, A.U. Shankar. Fast Time-Dependent Evaluation of Integrated Services Networks. (146K ps.Z) . CS-TR-3235.1, May 1995. Preliminary version in IEEE ICNP '94.