• Article  

      Adaptive congestion protocol: A congestion control protocol with learning capability 

      Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A.; Hadjipollas, George (2007)
      There is strong evidence that the current implementation of TCP will perform poorly in future high-speed networks. To address this problem many congestion control protocols have been proposed in literature which, however, ...
    • Conference Object  

      Congestion control in differentiated services networks using fuzzy logic 

      Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Hadjipollas, George; Polycarpou, Marios M.; Sekercioglu, Y. Ahmet (2004)
      The provision of quality of service (QoS) in a differentiated services (Diff-Serv) environment requires an adequate differentiation between high-priority/assured and low-priority/best-effort classes of service in the ...
    • Conference Object  

      A discrete event based simulation environment for enhanced UMTS 3 rd generation networks 

      Antoniou, Josephina; Vassiliou, Vasos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Hadjipollas, George; Jacovides, N. (2004)
      This paper presents a new system level simulator that has been developed to evaluate E-UMTS (Enhanced Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems) 3G Networks. The article describes how the simulator supports different ...
    • Conference Object  

      Enhanced UMTS cellular planning for multiple traffic classes in offices scenarios 

      Cabral, O.; Velez, F. J.; Hadjipollas, George; Stylianou, Marios; Antoniou, Josephina; Vassiliou, Vasos; Pitsillides, Andreas (2006)
      It is shown that Enhanced UMTS will be an affordable solution for providing the required network quality and to reduce infrastructure investments in offices scenarios. System capacity results are obtained by using a system ...
    • Conference Object  

      Enhanced UMTS cost/revenue optimisation in offices scenarios 

      Cabral, O.; Velez, F. J.; Hadjipollas, George; Stylianoi, M.; Antoniou, Josephina; Vassiliou, Vasos; Pitsillides, Andreas (2005)
      In this paper Enhanced UMTS offices scenarios and classes of services up to wideband are taken into account. A model is proposed for optimising Enhanced UMTS based in costs and revenues. A system level simulator is used ...
    • Conference Object  

      Enhanced UMTS simulation-based planning in office scenarios 

      Cabral, O.; Velez, F. J.; Hadjipollas, George; Stylianou, Marios; Antoniou, Josephina; Vassiliou, Vasos; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2006)
      Enhanced UMTS traffic characterisation parameters have been addressed for the offices scenario. By using a system level simulator, results concerning QoS measures as packet delay, blocking and handover failure probabilities ...
    • Conference Object  

      Fuzzy explicit marking for congestion control in differentiated services networks 

      Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Hadjipollas, George; Sekercioglu, Y. Ahmet; Polycarpou, Marios M. (2003)
      This paper presents a new active queue management scheme, fuzzy explicit marking (FEM), implemented within the differentiated services (Diffserv) framework to provide the congestion control using a fuzzy logic control ...
    • Conference Object  

      Fuzzy logic congestion control in TCP/IP differentiated services networks for quality of service provisioning 

      Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Pitsillides, Andreas; Hadjipollas, George; Sekercioglu, Y. Ahmet; Polycarpou, Marios M. (2004)
      A two class Fuzzy Explicit Marking (FEM) controller was designed and used in Differentiated Services Networks for quality of service provisioning. The fuzzy control system is designed to regulate the queues of IP routers ...
    • Article  

      Global asymptotic stability of max-min congestion control schemes 

      Lestas, Marios; Ioannou, Petros A.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Hadjipollas, George (2017)
      A number of congestion control schemes which adopt the max-min fairness criterion and do not require maintenance of per flow states within the network have been proposed in the literature. The establishment of global ...
    • Article  

      A new estimation scheme for the effective number of users in internet congestion control 

      Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A.; Hadjipollas, George (2011)
      Many congestion control protocols have been recently proposed in order to alleviate the problems encountered by TCP in high-speed networks and wireless links. Protocols utilizing an architecture that is in the same spirit ...
    • Conference Object  

      Power control for efficient multicasting in IP-based 3G and beyond mobile networks 

      Vlotomas, N.; Antoniou, Josephina; Hadjipollas, George; Vassiliou, Vasos; Pitsillides, Andreas (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2005)
      Third generation and beyond mobile networks have brought about a demand for new services that refrain from the traditional unicast communication model. These are services demanding transmission to many receivers with ...
    • Conference Object  

      Queue length based internet congestion control 

      Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A.; Hadjipollas, George (2007)
      In this paper we present a new queue length based Internet congestion control protocol which is shown through simulations to work effectively. The control objective is to regulate the queue size at each link so that it ...
    • Conference Object  

      Queue length based internet congestion control123 

      Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A.; Hadjipollas, George (2007)
      In this paper we present a new queue length based Internet congestion control protocol which is shown through simulations to work effectively. The control objective is to regulate the queue size at each link so that it ...
    • Conference Object  

      Queue length based internet congestion controlAAA 

      Lestas, Marios; Pitsillides, Andreas; Ioannou, Petros A.; Hadjipollas, George (2007)
      In this paper we present a new queue length based Internet congestion control protocol which is shown through simulations to work effectively. The control objective is to regulate the queue size at each link so that it ...
    • Conference Object  

      Simulating soft handover and power control for enhanced UMTS 

      Vassiliou, Vasos; Antoniou, Josephina; Pitsillides, Andreas; Hadjipollas, George (2005)
      In this paper we present a soft handover algorithm for wide band CDMA based E-UMTS networks and the associated power control algorithm. The handover and power control algorithms have been developed and implemented in the ...
    • Conference Object  

      A simulation tool to evaluate radio resource management algorithms for enhanced UMTS 

      Vassiliou, Vasos; Antoniou, Josephina; Hadjipollas, George; Pitsillides, Andreas (2005)
      This paper presents a new system level simulator that has been developed to evaluate Radio Resource Management (RRM) techniques in UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems) and enhanced-UMTS networks. The simulator ...
    • Master Thesis  

      Simulative evaluation of idcc in a resource management differentiated services environment 

      Hadjipollas, George (Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2003-06)
      The continuously increasing use of computers in the Internet, as well as the need from new applications on quality of service, require efficient ways so the congestion in cases where the demand in bandwidth is increased ...