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University: King Saud University - College of Computer and Information Sciences

Professor: Dr. Mansour Alsulaiman

Department: Computer Engineering

Title: QoS Comparisons for MPLS and MPLS/DiffServ networks

In the recent years, the Internet architecture has evolved, incorporating new technologies and adapting to the changing needs of its use. The introduction of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) as a part of the Internet forwarding architecture has immediate applications in traffic engineering (TE) and Quality of Service (QoS). It would be interesting to compare QoS performance of MPLS networks and MPLS/DiffServ networks, given their particular constraints. In this thesis, we will evaluate the QoS performance measures such as the expected number of packets in the buffer, packet loss probability and delay jitter for different types of traffics (data, voice…etc) for both MPLS and MPLS/DiffServ platforms. 

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