MSci Project Proposal Network Router Resource Virtualisation

There is considerable interest in applications which transport isochronous data across a network, for example teleconferencing or Voice over IP applications. These applications require a network which provides Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. While there are various networks which provide some form of QoS, there has been little investigation into the allocation of resources to network flows, and partitioning of resources between flows (so a flow only has access to its own resources and cannot affect the QoS provided to other flows). This project will attempt to produce a network router which can segment its internal resources (such as CPU cycles, memory and network bandwidth) between network flows requesting QoS guarantees, thus providing effective partitioning between different network flows.