Author : Federico Montesino Pouzols,Diego R. Lopez,Joaquim Barros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642180842
Mining and Control of Network Traffic by Computational Intelligence by Federico Montesino Pouzols,Diego R. Lopez,Joaquim Barros Pdf
As other complex systems in social and natural sciences as well as in engineering, the Internet is hard to understand from a technical point of view. Packet switched networks defy analytical modeling. The Internet is an outstanding and challenging case because of its fast development, unparalleled heterogeneity and the inherent lack of measurement and monitoring mechanisms in its core conception. This monograph deals with applications of computational intelligence methods, with an emphasis on fuzzy techniques, to a number of current issues in measurement, analysis and control of traffic in the Internet. First, the core building blocks of Internet Science and other related networking aspects are introduced. Then, data mining and control problems are addressed. In the first class two issues are considered: predictive modeling of traffic load as well as summarization of traffic flow measurements. The second class, control, includes active queue management schemes for Internet routers as well as window based end-to-end rate and congestion control. The practical hardware implementation of some of the fuzzy inference systems proposed here is also addressed. While some theoretical developments are described, we favor extensive evaluation of models using real-world data by simulation and experiments.