Networking Mechanisms for Delay-Sensitive Applications

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science and Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2009

Author dc:creator

• Podlesny, Maxim

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sergey Gorinsky

• Computer Science

Language dc:language

English (en)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7936/K7668B7G

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:openscholarship.wustl.edu:etd-1277