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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Falko Dressler

MQM - Multicast Quality Monitor

Institutions

  • Regional Computing Center Erlangen, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Team

  • Falko Dressler (coordination)

Funding

  • internal project

Project Time

  • 01.01.2000 - 31.12.2003

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Description

IP multicast is one of the leading technologies which has an important influence on the contemporary development of new multimedia applications to be used in the internet. Due to the high complexity and the incomplete or possibly unavailable implementations, the operation of IP multicast is still very expensive. In addition, only a few people have the knowledge to operate large multicast networks. Additionally, many multimedia transmissions suffer from the best effort transport model of IP. High quality of service (QoS) demands can be determined in emerging multimedia applications.
Today, it is generally considered that the solution of this problem lies in the development of automation procedures designed to rapidly locate the problem areas in the IP multicast network. The primary goal is a fully automatic test of the multicast functionality including a current network quality of service analysis, with the possibility of an extended service quality forecast.
The goal of the MQM is to introduce a novel approach to solve the mentioned questions which is based on a completely new analysis of the problem. The primary goal is to test the multicast infrastructure starting with the requirements of the most important applications. The functionality, i.e. the connectivity within the network, is measured as well as the quality of service. With the gathered information and measurement results, it will be possible to predict the quality of scheduled applications.

Selected Publications

  • Falko Dressler, "Scalability in Analyzing the Availability of Large-Scale Networks using Multicast," International Journal on Computers and Their Applications (IJCA), vol. 15 (3), pp. 217–224, September 2008. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "A Scalable Environment for Quality of Service Measurements in the Internet," Proceedings of 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology (CIIT 2003), Scottsdale, AZ, November 2003, pp. 307–312. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "Availability Analysis in Large Scale Multicast Networks," Proceedings of 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2003), vol. I, Marina del Rey, CA, November 2003, pp. 399–403. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "A Metric for Numerical Evaluation of the QoS of an Internet Connection," Proceedings of 18th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 2003), vol. 5b, Berlin, Germany, August 2003, pp. 1221–1230. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "Scalable QoS Measurements in Multicast Networks," Department of Computer Science, Friedrich–Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), Poster, May 2003. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, Monitoring of Multicast Networks for Time-Synchronous Communication, Arbeitsberichte des Instituts für Informatik, vol. 36/4, Erlangen, Germany, Institut für Informatik, 2003. [BibTeX, Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "MQM - Multicast Quality Monitor," Proceedings of 10th IFIP International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM 2002), Monterey Park, CA, October 2002, pp. 671–678. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "An Approach for QoS Measurements in IP Multicast Networks, MQM - Multicast Quality Monitor," Proceedings of International Network Conference (INC 2002), Plymouth, United Kingdom, July 2002. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "QoS considerations on IP multicast services," Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Education, Science, and Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR 2002w), L'Aquila, Italy, January 2002. [BibTeX, PDF and Details...]
  • Falko Dressler, "How to Measure Reliability and Quality of IP Multicast Services?," Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM 2001), Victoria, Canada, August 2001, pp. 401–404. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]

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