US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Bandwidth and Capacity Study for Multimedia Applications Over IP Backbone Networks

描述：该奖项旨在支持宾夕法尼亚州费城宾夕法尼亚大学电气工程系Magda El Zarki博士和埃及开罗电子研究所计算机通信与网络系Tarek Kamel博士的合作项目。他们计划研究和分析埃及的电信市场，确定互联网服务提供商（isp）的需求和要求，以及社会和不断发展的互联网的约束和需求。他们计划建立一个框架并开发一个工具，供互联网服务提供商和其他电信机构使用，以提高其性能，并帮助为将服务于多媒体应用的互联网协议（IP）主干网进行容量规划和带宽供应。两位科学家将合作开发带宽优化和容量规划框架。该分析将基于IP技术的最新发展，如Ipv6、移动IP、多播和面向农村地区的不对称卫星服务。El Zarki博士因其科学和学术成就以及早期参与哥伦比亚大学nsf支持的电信中心而受到认可。Kamel博士在埃及的计算机网络和互联网社会的发展和管理方面负有主要的科学责任。El Zarki和Kamel分别在美国和埃及的实验室拥有优秀和互补的设施来进行这项研究。所提议的活动可能导致为新出现的需要严格的服务质量（QoS）的多媒体应用程序开发工具。在发展中国家，能力资源的成本是发展高速通信的一个关键限制因素，其结果将特别有用。宾夕法尼亚大学的一名研究生将参与这项研究，并将获得国际科学活动的经验。该提案符合INT在共同感兴趣的领域支持合作研究的目标。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金项目的支持，该项目向两国的科学家和工程师提供赠款，以开展这些合作活动。

9905085El ZarkiDescription: This award is to support a collaborative project by Dr. Magda El Zarki, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Dr. Tarek Kamel, Computer Communications and Networking Department, Electronics Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt. They plan to study and analyze the telecommunications market in Egypt and define the needs and requirements of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the constraints and needs of the society and the evolving Internet. They plan to build a framework and develop a tool that can be used by the ISPs and other telecommunications agencies to improve their performance and help with the capacity planning and bandwidth provisioning for Internet Protocol (IP) backbones that will service multimedia applications. The two scientists will collaborate on the development of the bandwidth optimization and capacity-planning framework. The analysis will be based on recent developments in the IP technology such as Ipv6, mobile IP, multicasting, and asymmetrical satellite based services for rural areas. Scope: Dr. El Zarki is recognized for her scientific and academic accomplishments and for her early involvement at Columbia University's NSF-supported Telecommunications Center. Dr. Kamel has major scientific responsibilities in development and management of computer networks and in the Internet society in Egypt. El Zarki and Kamel's laboratories in the United States and in Egypt respectively have excellent and complementary facilities to conduct this research. The proposed activities could lead to development of tools for the newly emerging multimedia applications that require stringent Quality of Service (QoS). The results will be especially useful in developing countries where the cost of capacity resources is a crucial limiting factor in the development of high-speed communications. A graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania will participate in the research, and will gain experience in an international science activity. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting collaborative research in areas of mutual interest. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these cooperative activities.