Read the following technical papers.
C. Dovrolis and P. Ramanathan, "A case for relative differentiated services and the proportional differentiation model", IEEE Network, Sep/Oct 1999. Download Paper
C. Dovrolis, D. Stiliadia, and P. Ramanathan, "Proportional differentiated services: delay differentiation and packet scheduling”, ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking, 10(1), 2002. Download Paper
What to turn in?
A. Write a brief summary (about one page) in Word or PDF about EACH of the papers. The questions you should answer after reading a paper are the following:
1. What is the overall purpose/topic of the research?
2. What are motivations for the work?
3. What are the primary research (or technical) issues in the paper?
4. What are the primary contributions of the paper?
B. Answer the following questions briefly and precisely:
1. What are the full names of IntServ, DiffServ, and RSVP?
2. Give a comparison of the IntServ and DiffServ architectures from the perspectives of granularity, coordination, scalability, and management.
3. What are major drawbacks of "strict prioritization" for relative service differentiation (paper 1)?
4. What are two basic features for relative service differentiation (paper 1)?
5. What are primary QoS (quality of service) metrics considered in DiffServ provisioning?
6. What are primary packet scheduling algorithms proposed in paper 2 for proportional delay differentiation?
7. What is the feasibility issue of the PDD model (paper 2)?
8. What is the key difference between PAD and WTP algorithms for PDD model in paper 2?
Links of "How to read a research paper"
You may go to UCCS online library to use IEEE Xplore or ACM digital library for paper searching and downloading, or simply go to Google for paper searching and downloading.