CIP: A Complex Adaptive System Approach to QoS Assurance and Stateful Resource Management for Dependable Information Infrastructure

Abstract

This research relates to the project objectives concerning information infrastructure at the local, regional and global levels. The subgroup's major effort in the past year was on theoretical and computational issues concerning the structure, dynamics, optimization, information flow, and security in complex networks. The investigations directly relate to our original goals stated in previous years' reports. The benefits applications of this network extend from small, local area networks, to large information infrastructures. Such networks may be governmental or civilian in nature. Critical government and civilian network operations can both benefit from having network QoS guarantees. This year, we extended our local level quality of service (QoS) work on waiting time variance (WTV) problems and developed heuristic methods for weighted WTV problems. We drew some conclusions regarding the influencing factors of extended our local level QoS work to multiple machine problems. We completed investigating the case where the multiple machines are identical and developed methods for scheduling jobs on these machines. At the global level, we developed a protocol and algorithms for end-to-end QoS and began implanting a simulation to explore our protocol.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 2005
Accession Number
ADA473161

Entities

People

  • Nong Ye
  • Ying-Cheng Lai

Organizations

  • Arizona State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Infrastructure
  • Load Monitoring
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operations Research
  • Resource Management
  • Routing Protocols
  • Scheduling (Production)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Systems Analysis and Design