DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GRIDLOCK NETWORK USER

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SERVICE VALIDATION

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 CERTIFICATION

This is to certify that this project work: design and implementation of gridlock

network user management system for mobile service validation was carried out by

Okeke Chinedu Henry with the registration number MOUAU/CME/15/86922 and

approved in the department of Computer Engineering in Michael Okpara

University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State under the supervision of Engr.

Prof. Chukwugoziem Ihekeaba.

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OKEKE CHINEDU HENRY DATE
MOUAU/CME/15/86922

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 APPROVAL PAGE

I verify that this project work was carried out by Okeke Chinedu Henry with the

registration number MOUAU/CME/15/86922 and approved by the Department of

Computer Engineering, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Abia

State. As meeting the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Engineering

(B.Eng), Computer Engineering.

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Engr. Prof. Chukwugoziem Ihekweaba Date
(Project supervisor)

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Engr. Dr. E. U. Udo Date
(Head of Department)

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 DEDICATION

To everyone who believed in me I am grateful for your trust and every word of

encouragement

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

So many people were helpful to me during the writing of this seminar work.

I should also appreciate my supervisor Engr. Prof. Chukwugoziem Ihekweaba, for

being available every time I needed him. Similarly, Mr. Bright passed down his

knowledge and experience to me.

My loving parents, Mr. and Mrs. Okeke made great sacrifices to ensure I arrive at

my destination. My siblings have always been there to encourage me.

Finally, I thank God for life and inspiration

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 TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page i
Certification ii
Approval page iii
Dedication iv
Acknowledgment v
Table of content vi
CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 2
1.3 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 3
1.4 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT 4
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 4
1.6 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 5
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS 6

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 THEORY OF CONGESTION CONTROL 8

2.2 CONGESTIVE COLLAPSE 10
2.3 BRIEF HISTORY OF NIGERIA’S TELECOMMUNICATION 14
2.4 NETWORK CONGESTION 16
2.5 NETWORK CONNECTIVITY 18

CHAPTER THREE

MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY

3.1.1 INTERCONNECT REQUEST 21

3.1.2 INTERCONNECT SCHEDULE 22
3.1.3 POINTS OF INTERCONNECTIVITY 22
3.1.4 RESOURCES 23
3.2 FACT FINDING METHOD 23
3.2.1 PRIMARY SOURCE 23
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3.2.2 SECONDARY SOURCE 24
3.2.3 PERSONNEL INTERVIEWS 24
3.2.4 WRITTEN DOCUMENT 25
3.3 DESIGN FORMAT FOR CUSTOMER/USER PHONE
LINE FORMS 25
3.3.1 THE TYPICAL CUSTOMER PHONE LINE FORM FORMAT 26
3.4 INPUT, PROCESS AND OUTPUT ANALYSIS 26
3.4.1 INPUT ANALYSIS 26
3.4.2 PROCESS ANALYSIS 27
3.4.3 OUTPUT ANALYSIS 28
3.5 SYSTEM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT 28
3.5.1 REVIEW OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT 28
3.5.2 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE 28
3.6 THE WATERFALL APPROACH 29
3.7 THE DESIGN PROCEDURE 31
3.8 INFORMATION FLOW CHART 33
CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCE

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 ABSTRACT:

Many traffic engineering and network design tasks require a network-wide

description as an input for their performance evaluation. Therefore, a traffic matrix
represents the demands for these tasks and is applicable to them. Traffic matrix can
be measured directly or estimated from an indirect data. Generating synthetic
traffic matrix method is a better way to achieve traffic matrix indirectly. We have
previously proposed the conqueror traffic based synthetic traffic matrix and we
have indicated that our conqueror traffic based matrix performed better in all cases
where conqueror traffic existed. In this paper by measuring the maximum link-
utilization, we consider how well the conqueror traffic based synthetic matrix
optimizes the specific traffic engineering task; that is optimizing network routing
to minimize congestion. First, we optimize the routing with the conqueror traffic
based synthetic matrix to minimize congestion. Then, we test the performance of
the resulting routing on the real traffic matrix. Simulation results indicate that
OSPF optimization which we use in this paper to optimize the weights based on
the conqueror traffic based synthetic matrix, optimize the routing better and result
in a better performance on real traffic matrix.

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