[Nets-seminars] Talk 5th February, GS/302 4pm

[Richard G. Clegg]

Don't forget this Friday's talk: "Steps towards self-aware networks"

Erol Gelenbe
Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, Imperial College London
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe

  Abstract:  We present the design of a packet network where paths are 
dynamically selected based on quality of service (QoS) metrics that can be 
specified by the users of the network or by the network's access points. 
The approach uses on-line measurement associated with the traffic itself, 
and reinforcement learning throughout the nodes of the network, to try to 
satisfy the users' QoS objectives. The talk will present numerous 
measurement studies of this approach on a large laboratory test-bed. The 
seminar is based on our recent paper in the Communications of the ACM (July 
2009), which integrates different aspects of our research including network 
design, performance evaluation models and methods, and probability models 
of neuronal networks.

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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/