A collaborative approach for proactive detection of distributed denial of service attacks (2008)
François, Jérôme, El-Atawy, Adel, Al Shaer, Ehab, Boutaba, Raouf
Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) are a major threat to the Internet and detecting this kind of attacks as far as possible from the victim and close as possible to its source is a real...
A collaborative approach for proactive detection of distributed denial of service attacks (2008)
François, Jérôme, El-Atawy, Adel, Al Shaer, Ehab, Boutaba, Raouf
Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) are a major threat to the Internet and detecting this kind of attacks as far as possible from the victim and close as possible to its source is a real...
Selective Active Scanning For Fast Handoff in WLAN (2004)
Sonia Waharte, Kevin Ritzenthaler, Raouf Boutaba
Seamless connectivity in wireless access networks is critical for timesensitive applications requiring Quality-of-Service guarantees with bounded data transmission delay. Currently, the latency...
Dynamic Cell-based MAC Protocol for Target (2004)
Today's advances in sensor technology make it feasible to embed sensing, communication and computation capabilities in small untethered nodes. However, node lifetime is still severely restricted by...
pMeasure: A Tool for Measuring the (2004)
This paper describes pMeasure, a tool for measuring large scale networks, particularly the Internet, from end to end. As the Internet grows in size and complexity, fine-grained, precise and timely...
The Impact of User Mobility on Data Service (2004)
In this paper we describe an analytical approach to derive the average packet delay and packet loss probability in a cell of a wireless network operating based on the GSM/GPRS standard. This...
Data Service Performance Analysis In Gprs Systems (2004)
In this paper we describe an analytical approach for deriving the packet delay distribution in a cell of a wireless network operating based on the general packet radio service (GPRS) standard. Based...
Resource Allocation in User-Controlled (2004)
Wojciech M. Golab, Raouf Boutaba
The concept of a user-controlled circuit-switched optical network is gaining popularity in an e#ort to fulfill the insatiable data transport needs of the scientific community. We consider the...
Grid-Controlled Lightpaths for High Performance Grid Applications (2004)
Raouf Boutaba, Wojciech Golab, Youssef Iraqi, Tianshu Li, Bill St. Arnaud
Grid applications call for high performance networking support. One attractive solution is to deploy Grids over optical networks. However, resource management in optical domains is traditionally very...
WDM Optical Network Reconfiguration Using Automated (2004)
A key feature of optical networks based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology is the ability to optimize the configuration of optical resources, i.e. wavelengths, with respect to a...
Overlay Wireless Sensor Networks for (2004)
Sonia Waharte, Jin Xiao, Raouf Boutaba
Supporting application QoS in wireless environment remains a challenging task due to the inherent constraints of wireless interfaces (resource scarcity, signal quality, etc.). While current standards...
Network Management: State of the Art (2003)
This paper examines the state-of-the-art enabling technologies for network management, including policy-based network management, distributed object computing, Web-based network management,...
IP Video Streaming With Fine-Grained TCP-Friendly Rate Adaptation (2003)
Toufik Ahmed, Ahmed Mehaoua, Raouf Boutaba
Video streaming over the Internet is a challenging task since the Internet is a shared environment offering only best effort service. That is, it offers no quality of service and no guarantee of...
Prediction-Based Admission Control for DiffServ (2003)
Majid Ghaderi, Joe Capka, Raouf Boutaba
Future wireless Internet will consist of different wireless technologies that should operate together in a consistent way to provide seamless quality of service to wireless users. In this paper, a...
Anetworkmanagement Viewpoint (2003)
Raouf Boutaba, Brent Ishibashi, Basem Shihada
With the advent and the rapid growth of the Internet, e-services have proliferated. Indeed, e-commerce activities have played a vital role in expanding current business transactions to much higher...
Directory Supported Management with SNMPv3 (2003)
Salima Omari, Raouf Boutaba, Omar Cherkaoui
Data security and maintaining system integrity are the primary concerns pointed out by corporations and individuals when connecting to the Internet. To respond to this demand, the most recent agreed...
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This paper presents a new slice-based discard scheme to be used with Guaranteed Frame Rate service (formerly UBR+). The scheme adaptively and selectively adjusts discard levels to the switch's buffer...
The Degree of Participation Concept in Ad Hoc Networks (2003)
The paper introduces the novel concept of Degree-ofParticipation (DP) in mobile ad hoc networks. The Degreeof -Participation concept allows nodes in the ad hoc network to express the level of...
M. Sloman, J. Lobo, and E. Lupu (Eds.): POLICY 2001, LNCS 1995, pp. 247-261, 2001. (2003)
Raouf Boutaba, Andreas Polyrakis
For several years, Configuration Management has been conducted mainly through command line or SNMP. However, while computer networks started growing bigger in size and complexity, it became apparent...
An Integrated Framework for Ecient (2003)
Ahmed Mehaoua, Raouf Boutaba, Yasser Rasheed
This paper particularly focuses on unidirectional delay tolerant video applications and attempts to enhance the UBR transport service to e#ciently support them
Raouf Boutaba, Salima Omari, Ajay Pal, Singh Virk
Traditional configuration management involves complex labor-intensive processes performed by experts. The configuration tasks such as installing or reconfiguring a system, provisioning network...
Preprint 0 (2000) ?--? 1 Resource Management issues in Future Wireless Multimedia Networks (2003)
This paper is organized into 5 main sections. Section 2 introduces a typical wireless mobile network architecture, and discusses the evolution of wireless personal communications. Section 3 gives a...
Sommaire and cost-effectiveness. However, the disadvantage is the scaling limitation and the complexity of configuration management.
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INTRODUCTION Traditional Management techniques are based on low-level configuration of each network device individually. Management tools that attempt to automate this process do exist; however the...
A Generic Platform for Scalable Access to Multimedia-on-Demand Systems (2003)
Raouf Boutaba, Abdelhakim Hafid
Access to multimedia servers is commonly done according to a client/server model where the end user at the client host retrieves multimedia objects from a multimedia server. In a distributed...
Mobile Networks and Applications 5 (2000) 137--145 137 QoS control in wireless ATM (2003)
This paper introduces a 3-level multiagent architecture for QoS control in WATM. The ultimate aim of the proposed architecture is to provide a self-regulating network congestion control management by...
QoS control in wireless ATM (2001)
This paper introduces a 3-level multiagent architecture for QoS control in WATM. The ultimate aim of the proposed architecture is to provide a self-regulating network congestion control management by...
FEC_PSD: A FEC-aware Video Packet Drop Scheme (2001)
Ahmed Mehaoua, Sijing Zhang, Raouf Boutaba
While delivering real-time video streams across a resource constrained network, loss of frame may be unavoidable. Under such circumstances, it is desirable to design smart video packet drop policies...
With increasing interest in the transmission of audio-visual applications over ATM best effort services, efficient videooriented cell discarding techniques for improving the video quality in the...
A Picture Quality Control Framework for MPEG video over ATM (2000)
This paper addresses the problem of transmission of digital Video communications over B-ISDN and provides a solution based on a good knowledge of both video system design and broadband networks...
Towards An Efficient Best Effort Video Delivery Service (2000)
Ahmed Mehaoua, Raouf Boutaba, Song Pu, Yasser Rasheed, Alberto Leon-garcia
This paper addresses the transport of real-time multimedia traffic generated by MPEG-2 applications over ATM networks using an enhanced UBR best effort service (UBR+). It analyses the factors...
An Extended Priority Data Partition Scheme for MPEG Video Connections over ATM (2000)
Transmission of compressed video over ATM networks requires efficient data priority partition techniques. In association with intelligent cell discard schemes, these techniques aim to minimize loss...
Partial versus Early Packet Video Discard (1999)
In this paper, we propose and compare two video slicebased discard schemes, namely adaptive-PSD and Adaptive-ESD, for the transmission of MPEG video streams overATM best effort services. The schemes...
An Architectural Approach for Integrated Network and Systems Management (1998)
Today's enterprises are accepting networked systems as a fundamental part of their information technology strategy. The constant growth in quantity and quality of networked systems and the thereby...
In this paper we introduce a methodology for structuring the management of networked systems. Domains are used as a means for grouping resources according to different criteria. Moreover, we present...
A Picture Quality Control Framework for MPEG video over ATM (1998)
This paper addresses the problem of transmission of digital Video communications over B-ISDN and provides a solution based on a good knowledge of both video system design and broadband networks...
With increasing interest in the transmission of audio-visual applications over ATM best effort services, efficient videooriented cell discarding techniques for improving the video quality in the...
An Extended Priority Data Partition Scheme for MPEG Video Connections over ATM (1997)
Transmission of compressed video over ATM networks requires efficient data priority partition techniques. In association with intelligent cell discard schemes, these techniques aim to minimize loss...
Configurable Multi-Agent System For Qos Control In Watm (1997)
This paper introduces a configurable multi-agents architecture for QoS control in WATM. The ultimate aim of the proposed architecture is to provide a selfregulating network congestion control...
Integrated Network Management: From Concepts to Application to ATM-Based Networks. (1996)
In this paper we present structuring concepts for networked systems management. The concepts mainly deal with organizing and structuring management systems by introducing building blocks (called...
An Architectural Approach for Integrated Network and Systems Management (1996)
Today's enterprises are accepting networked systems as a fundamental part of their information technology strategy. The constant growth in quantity and quality of networked systems and the thereby...
The Two Real-Time Solitudes: computerized control and telecommunications (1996)
Paul Freedman, Daniel Gaudreau, Raouf Boutaba, Ahmed Mehaoua
While the two solitudes of our title, computerized control and telecommunications, are both concerned with computerized solutions to real world problems, we suggest that they are really addressing...
An Architectural Approach for Integrated Network and Systems Management (1996)
Today's enterprises are accepting networked systems as a fundamental part of their information technology strategy. The constant growth in quantity and quality of networked systems and the thereby...
An Architectural Foundation for Relating Features (1970)
Petre Dini, Raouf Boutaba, Proc Feature, K. J. Turner
Consideration of services in the Intelligent Network and telecommunications leads to the definition of ANISE (Architectural Notions In Service Engineering). This is a rigorous language for defining...