Impact of background utilization and background traffic on the foreground applications in a wide area network
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2012
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© 2012 Springer Science+Business Medi
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In the real scenarios, network utilization widely depends on the background traffic and the number of active users. This paper presents the effect of background traffic on the QoS of foreground traffic by varying the utilization of LAN devices, server, and bandwidth. We designed a WAN (Wide Area Network) using the OPNET simulator, which consists of different Local Area Networks (LANs) located in different cities. We considered a foreground GSM quality voice traffic, and FTP heavy and video conference background traffic. The experimental results demonstrated that the channel bandwidth utilization has much effect on the QoS of foreground traffic. In addition, heavy background traffic highly affects the QoS of foreground traffic due to the network congestion.
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This conference paper was presented in the 4th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and Its Applications, CSA 2012; Jeju Island; South Korea; 22 November 2012 through 25 November 2012 [© 2012 Springer Science+Business Media] The conference paper's definite version is available at: :http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5699-1_92
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Background traffic, Background utilization, Foreground traffic, OPNET, WAN
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Uddin, J., & Kim, J. M. (2012). Impact of background utilization and background traffic on the foreground applications in a wide area network doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5699-1_92