Communal Network Architecture for Sharing High Bandwidth Services

Author

Mamede, Jorge ; Moreira, Rui ; Oliveira, Bruno ; Brandao, V.

Author_Institution

ISEP/IPP & INESC Porto, Porto

fYear

2008

fDate

5-8 May 2008

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

307

Abstract

This paper presents a network architecture for provisioning communal Internet access services to residential customers. The advantages of adopting the proposed architecture are enumerated both for Internet Service Providers (ISP) and residential clients. The paper presents also the CommGate, a gateway specially developed for managing the network traffic through multiple communal accesses, . Tests were carried out simulating several community scenarios with different number of customers and generating different traffic loads. The results allow us to conclude about the performance of the CommGate and the benefits of the proposed architecture.

Keywords

Internet; bandwidth allocation; telecommunication network management; telecommunication traffic; Internet service provider; communal Internet access service; communal network architecture; gateway; high bandwidth service sharing; network traffic; residential customer; Bandwidth; Communication networks; Costs; IP networks; Investments; Service oriented architecture; Subscriptions; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Web and internet services; CommGate; Communal network architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, 2008. CNSR 2008. 6th Annual

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3135-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNSR.2008.82

Filename

4519873