Traffic engineering
Operators of telecommunications networks aim at maximizing their profit while meeting customer performance demands. Traffic engineering involves both capacity planning and traffic management. The objective is to deliver desired Quality of Service with minimum consumption of network resources.
Specialist competencies
- Packet traffic modelling
- Packet schedulers
- Packet-level performance (QoS) evaluation
- Call traffic modelling
- Call admission control
- Unicast and multicast QoS routing
- Call-level performance (GoS) evaluation
Research reports
Traffic engineering in telecommunications networks
Traffic engineering in IPTV networks
Research resources
Traffic engineering terminology