SQoS Based Network Planning for Wired and Wireless Infrastructures

Objectives
• Extending the SQoS research to the practical level of network planning.
• Finding methods to automate the network planning process.
• Proposing the SQoS structures in real-world networks.
• Developing guidelines and principles for SQoS based planning.
• Studying the properties of SQoS structures.
• Proposal of new structures for network infrastructures.
• Using SQoS in combined wired and wireless infrastructures.
• Investigation of other application areas of SQoS.

Methods
• In the first step of implementing structures a manual/semiautomatic approach has been used with the support of a previous planning experience. A case study has been considered. This approach has formed an initial step toward the SQoS based network planning. The possibility of a fully automatic approach is being analyzed.
• Graph Theory and Analytical Geometry are being used to analyze network structures. In order to find a systematic and automatic approach, the use and development of algorithms are exercised.
• GIS information is used to make the planning process more automated modelling and simulations are being conducted for implementing structures.
• Conducting a study on wireless broadband technology parameters to find the possibility of combined wired and wireless infrastructure.
• After obtaining some experience of implementing structures, guidelines and planning prin-ciples will be elaborated. A reference model may be produced, which would guide the SQoS based network planning in detail.
• Development of one or more software tools supporting the analytical and deployment ac-tivities.
• Investigating the use of SQoS in other related fields, such as Linux clusters.