Regional Internet Exchange for MENA Countries and its Performance Evaluation

A. Al-Zoubaidi ()
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A. Al-Zoubaidi: Computer Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Mu'tah University, Karak-Jordan, Israel

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2003, vol. 02, issue 04, 403-408

Abstract: In this paper we propose a Regional Internet Exchange (RIX) scheme for MENA countries intra-regional traffic, compared with the existing situation for Internet service provision. The RIX architecture is proposed, implemented, and evaluated using simulation. Simultaneous comparative performance evaluation of Internet service provision for the existing and the proposed scenarios are presented. It is focused to measure utilization, message delays, access time and client perceived latencies performance metrics. The study shows that the proposed scheme results in less international bandwidth utilization and it reduces significantly the access time and most importantly it is inherently cost-effective.

Keywords: Regional exchange; Intra regional traffic; MENA region; Traffic models; Performance metrics; End to end packet delay; Access delay; Link utilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219649203000589

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