The SAAM Architecture: Enabling Integrated Services

Abstract

Computer networks of today are based predominantly on the TCP/IP protocol suite that provides best effort service. The current IP protocol excels in its simplicity and network fault tolerance. The way it implements this simplicity and fault tolerance, however, limits the protocol's ability to provide a guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). A first Step in providing this QoS is to incorporate the concept of flow based routing. This thesis describes an implementation of the Server and Agent based Active network Management (SAAM) system architecture that incorporates flow based routing. The architecture contains servers that maintain a database that is used for assigning each flow to a path that will provide the needed QoS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA371295

Entities

People

  • Dean J. Vrable
  • John W. Yarger

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Packet Loss
  • Transport Protocols
  • United States Naval Academy
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.