Yanfeng Zhang

Work place: School of Information Science and Engineering Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

E-mail: threewells14@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Computer Networks, Network Architecture, Data Compression, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Yanfeng Zhang received the Master degree and Bachelor degree in computer science from 2008 and 2005 respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Application Techniques in school of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. And he is doing research work in Next Generation Internet Technologies Lab in Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao. His research interests include network virtualization, and data center networking. He was working in NEUSoft Research Center as an intern software engineer between March 2006 and July 2007. Mr. Zhang is an IEEE student member, including IEEE Communication Society member and IEEE Computer Society member.

Author Articles
A Virtualized Network Architecture for Improving QoS

By Yanfeng Zhang Cuirong Wang Yuan Gao

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2009.01.03, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2009

Recently, researches have shown that today'sbest-effort Internet with "one fits all" principle comes to an impasse. Addressed to the different QoS requirements oftoday's network services, we propose a new network architecture based on network virtualization technology for improving Internet QoS. It divides a “thick” network into multiple “thin” virtual networks deploying on the same substrate, each is customized with a special designing goal and runs a customized protocol. Then the traffic with different QoS requirements is classified at the ingress router,and distributed to different virtual networks, which are the
most suitable for carrying the special traffic. Also, we can deploy a service on multiple virtual networks, and making them working collaboratively to achieve a better QoS. To verify this idea, a prototype is implemented in LAN-scale network. By some simply designed experiments for comparison, we observe that, by use of our network architecture, service provider with specific QoS requirement can take its choice to choose appropriate virtual networks to achieve better QoS performance.

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