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QUALITY OF SERVICE IN HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKSKostas Pentikousis & Milla Huusko
 
VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND
28.9.20052
AGENDA (1/4)
•QoS seems to fade as a research topic•The research community seems more interested in•Network measurements•TCP and TCP-friendly protocol performance overmulti-gigabit pipes, multi-hop wireless•P2P, Routing, Overlays•Security, Gaming•In addition, overprovisioning seems to be more wide-spread, more attractive than deploying QoS•Is that a bad thing?•Is overprovisioning the solution?•Is it enough? Why not?
 
VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND
28.9.20053
OVERPROVISIONING: IT AIN'T BAD
Overprovisioning is not a new ideaFactor of safety (a.k.a.
factor of ignorance 
)Eighteenth century iron bridges had a factor of safetyof 3-7x the calculated load
The
HarilaosTrikoupis 
bridge connecting Rio-Antirioin SW Greece
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