[Nets-seminars] Seminar Friday 14th September

[Richard G. Clegg]

The first seminar of term is the coming Friday (14th September) at 16:00 
in GS/302 (66-72 Gower Street).  The speaker in Lin Guan from Loughborough.

Stochastic analysis of a congestion control mechanism with QoS 
constraints and QoS negotiation algorithms for dependable communication 
systems

With the rapid development of the Internet, Quality of Service (QoS) has 
become one of the most important issues in present networks, enabling 
different types of traffic to satisfy specified QoS constraints. This 
talk will present discrete-time stochastic modelling analysis of a 
congestion control mechanism for Internet traffic and a new approach for 
constraining end-to-end delay to a specified value. The feasibility of 
the system is examined using both theoretical analysis and simulation. 
Additionally, a case study application of the QoS negotiation framework 
for dependable communication systems to an industrially inspired, 
real-time system emulator will be presented.

Dr. Guan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at 
Loughborough University. Her research interests focus on performance 
modelling/evaluation of heterogeneous computer networks, QoS analysis 
and enhancements, mobile computing and wireless sensor networks. She has 
published over 70 journal and conference papers and she has been serving 
as guest editors for several international journals, such as those 
published by Elsevier and Springer. She has served on program committees 
over 20 international conferences/workshops, including co-chairs and 
publicity chairs. She was awarded the British Federation of Women 
Graduates Foundation Main Grant during her PhD. She successfully bid for 
research capital investment fund, BAE PV project and British Council 
Treaty of Windsor Programme. She held two EPSRC CASE awards and one EngD 
projects in collaboration with BAE Systems. She recently received a 
prestigious award as Royal Society Industry Fellow and an EPSRC funded 
knowledge transfer project.


Our schedule for the rest of term is:

  * 14th September -- Lin Guan (Loughborough) -- Stochastic analysis of
    a congestion control mechanism with QoS constraints and QoS
    negotiation algorithms for dependable communication systems
  * 12th October -- TBA
  * 16th October -- TBA
  * 9th November -- Maria Martini (Kingston) -- TBA
  * 23rd November -- Miguel Rodrigues (UCL) -- TBA


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

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