Brian Meskill

Waterford Institute of Technology | WIT · Department of Computing, Maths & Physics

As it has evolved, the Internet has had to support a broadening range of networking technologies, business models and user interaction modes. Researchers and industry practitioners have realised that this trend necessitates a fundamental rethinking of approaches to network and service management. This has spurred significant research efforts toward...

There are various parameters for analyzing the quality of network communication links and paths, one attracting particular attention is available bandwidth. In this chapter we describe a platform for the available bandwidth estimation, a comparison of different tools for the estimation of this parameter, and an application of such estimation in a r...

Current literature defines the effective capacity of a wireless link as the maximum throughput that can be supported while meeting specific Quality of Service targets on packet delay. This metric can be harnessed for a wide variety of QoS control routines within wireless networks such as traffic optimisation and delay sensitive admission control an...

We present a server selection and admission control algorithm for IPTV networks that uses available bandwidth estimation to assess bandwidth available on the path from an end-user point of attachment to one or more IPTV content servers and that employs a revenue maximising admission decision process that prioritizes requests for high revenue conten...

Service providers offering IP-based video on demand services often replicate video content in multiple content servers with different network points of attachment. When a request for a content item arrives from an end-user, a decision must be made as to whether the request should be admitted and, if so, which server should be used. To ensure adequa...