On detecting service violations and bandwidth theft in QoS network domains

Computer Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 861-871

  Habib, Ahsan ^a   Fahmy, Sonia ^a   Avasarala, Srinivas R ^b   Prabhakar, Venkatesh ^c   Bhargava, Bharat ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b Andiamo Systems Inc   (United States)

^c Senera Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Network monitoring; Network security; Network tomography; Quality of service; Service level agreements

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PACKET NETWORKS; ROUTERS; THROUGHPUT; TOMOGRAPHY;

NETWORK MONITORING; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT MONITOR (SLAM);

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 0037457637     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(02)00219-0     Document Type: Article

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