Congestion pricing as scalable, efficient and stable congestion control for future IP networks [Elektronische Ressource] / Sebastian Zimmermann

Congestion Pricing as Scalable, Ef cient and Stable Control for Future IP NetworksDissertationSebastian Zimmermann2005This dissertation has been published as a book by VDE-Verlag (http://www.vde-verlag.de).AcknowledgmentsThe results presented in this dissertation were obtained during my work at the Department ofCommunication Networks of the University of Technology at Hamburg-Harburg from 1999 to2003. I would like to express sincere thanks and gratitude to my supervisor ("Doktorvater") andhead of the department, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Killat, for his support and productive discussions aswell as disputes. I also wish to thank Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Lehnert, who was co-evaluator of thisdissertation, and Prof. Dr. Hermann Rohling, who chaired the examination committee.I am indebted to my former colleagues at the Department of Communication Networks, whowere always extremely helpful and made the stay at the department a very pleasant experience.Special thanks go to Dr.-Ing. Kai Below for his support.Various simulations and experiments presented in this dissertation were conducted by stu-dents as part of their project work. They also took part in the enhancement of the networksimulators. I owe them many thanks for their assistance. In particular, I want to mention TiloHamann, who signi cantly contributed to the research presented in Chapter 5 as part of hisMaster’s thesis.Parts of this work were nancially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG).