Section: Scientific Foundations

Introduction

The scientific foundations of our work are those of network design and network analysis. Specifically, this concerns the principles of packet switching and in particular of IP networks (protocol design, protocol testing, routing, scheduling techniques), and the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of the associated problems, on which our methods and tools are based.

These foundations are described in the following paragraphs. We begin by a subsection dedicated to Quality of Service, since it can be seen as an unifying concept in our activities. Then we briefly describe the specific sub-area of models' evaluation and about the particular multidisciplinary domain of pricing problems.