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<span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
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by Lin Guan from Loughborough. It is at 16:00 in GS/302 66-72
Gower Street.<br>
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style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">Stochastic
analysis of a congestion control mechanism with QoS constraints
and QoS negotiation algorithms
</span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"
lang="EN-US">for dependable communication systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; ">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 s</span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; "><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">tochastic modelling analysis
of a congestion control mechanism for Internet traffic and a
new approach for </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; ">constraining end-to-end delay to a
specified value.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; "><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial; ">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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.
</span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"
lang="EN-US">She has served on program committees over 20
international conferences/workshops, including co-chairs and
publicity chairs.
</span><span style="font-family:
Arial" lang="EN-US">She was awarded the British Federation of
Women Graduates Foundation Main Grant during her PhD.
</span><span style="font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">She successfully bid
for research capital investment fund, BAE PV project and British
Council Treaty of Windsor Programme.
</span><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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.<br>
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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