Dr. Alan Davy

Currently, network planning typically involves the use of dedicated metering hardware to gather and collate large amounts of network traffic data, which is then used to identify an optimal network configuration design reflecting estimated demand and outlined Quality of Service requirements. Use of dedicated hardware means that this approach is relatively expensive, incurring costs in hardware procurement, and maintenance, as well as significant training and operational costs.

We investigate approaches to network planning where input to the planning process comes from alternative sources. Key to our approaches are the use of pre-existing network accounting data. We contend that ISPs can easily reuse network accounting data gathered by deployed accounting systems to generate sufficiently accurate estimations of network demand.

Davy, A., "Measurement based Quality of Service Control for Communications Networks". PhD Thesis, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, 2008. 

Davy, A., Botvich, D. & Jennings, B. "Revenue Optimized IPTV Admission Control using Empirical Effective Bandwidth Estimation". In IEEE Transaction on Broadcasting: Quality Issues in Multimedia Broadcasting, September 2008. 

Davy, A., Botvich, D. & Jennings, B. "Empirical Effective bandwidth Estimation for IPTV Admission Control". In Proc. of 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS), vol. LNCS 4787/2007, 125-137, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007.

Davy, A., Botvich, D. & Jennings, B. "On The Use of Accounting Data for QoS-Aware IP Network Planning". In L. Mason & T. Drwiega, eds., Proc. of 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), vol. LNCS 4516, 348-360, Drwiega, Springer, Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.

Davy, A., Jennings, B. & Botvich, D. "Process for QoS-aware IP Network
Planning using Accounting Data and Effective Bandwidth Estimation". In Proc. of 2007 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Performance Modeling, QoS and Reliability Symposium, 2690-2695, Washington, DC, USA, 2007.

Davy, A., Botvich, D. D., Jennings, B., "On The Use of Accounting Data for QoS-Aware IP Network Planning", Managing Traffic Performance in Converged Networks,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4516-0348, Eds. L. Mason, T., Drwiega,Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Proc. 20th International Teletraffic Congress, ITC-20, pp.348 - 360. June, 2007. 

Davy, A., Botvich, D. D., Jennings, B., “An Efficient Process for Estimation of Network Demand for QoS- Aware IP Network Planning”, in Proc 6th IEEE Workshop in IP Operations and Management, Eds. Parr, G., Malone, D., Ó Foghlú, M., LNCS Autonomic Principles of IP Operations and Management, vol. 4268/2006, pp. 120-131, Springer Berlin/ Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-47701-3, 2006.

van der Meer, S., Davy, A., Davy, S., Carroll, R., Jennings, B. & Strassner, J. 2006, Autonomic Networking: Prototype Implementation of the Policy Continuum, in Proc. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN 2006), IEEE, New York, pp. 1-10.

Davy, A., Jennings, B. Coordinating Adaptation of Composite Services, in New Issues on Coordination and Adaptation Techniques (Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Coordination and Adaptation Techniques for Software Entities - WCAT05), S. Becker, C. Canal, J. M. Murillo, Poizat & M. Tivoli, eds., ISBN: 84-689-2747-3, Glasgow, Scotland, 2005.

Davy, A., Mahon, F., Doolin, K., Jennings, B. & Ó Foghlú, M. Personalised, Context-aware Composition of Pervasive Mobile Services, in Kushchu, I. & Halid Kuscu, M. (eds.), Proc. 1st Euro Conf. on Mobile Government (Euro mGov 2005), pp. 89-109, ISBN: 0-9763341-0-0, Brighton, United Kingdom, 2005.

Van der Meer, S., O’ Connor, R., Davy, A., Ubiquitous Smart Space Management, in Proc First International Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services, MUCS, Waterford, Ireland, 2003.

BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2002.

PhD (Measurement Based Quality of Service Control for Communications Networks), Department of Computing, Mathematics and Physics, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2008.

Supervisor:    Dr. Brendan Jennings, Dr. Dmitri Botvich 

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