OF THE THESIS Heterogeneous Networking Testbeds Integration and Wireless Network Virtualization by Rajesh Mahindra Thesis Director: Professor D. Raychaudhuri Networking research has grown immensely over the past few years. This has urged the need for a heterogeneous networking research infrastructure, to experiment with the interaction and integration of different types of networks. This requir...

The integration of wireless and wired network makes the mobility communication anytime and everywhere come true. The growing of multimedia services make home networks are becoming ubiquitous that is challenging bandwidth capabilities with respect to QoS to meet its requirements. To deal with these issues, this study presents an embedded QoS-aware residential gateway (EmQRG) in the advanced wire...

Abstract—A significant amount of wireless traffic will be carried in the Internet, and wireless connections need to share the network resources with wired connections. However, in a wireless network environment, TCP, one of the most important transport protocol of TCP/IP, suffers from significant throughput degradation due to the lossy characteristics of a wireless link. Therefore, in order to ...

Dynamic delivery of network/web services across platforms/technologies will provide leverage of existing investment, scalability, and promote interoperability. In this research we envision a number of hybrid wireless terminal devices/nodes with at least one device/node bridge (called base station or access point) between the air and a physical wired network hosting a number of server applicatio...

Wireless networks are becomming more popular and many network users prefer wireless infrastructure above the wired infrastructure because wireless networks are easy to install, maintain and use. One problem however, is that the network model used to develop protocols for the wireless network is the same layered model used for wired networks. This paper proposes research on cross-layer protocols...

In a wired network, most packet losses are due to congestion. TCP exploits this characteristic of wired networks and is tuned to perform well in such an environment. But in a wireless environment, losses due to errors over the wireless hop also contribute signiicantly to the cumulative packet losses. If TCP is used ov er a wireless link, then its performance is severely degraded. In this paper,...