Constrained Average Design Method for QoS-Based Traffic Engineering at the Edge/Gateway Boundary in VANETs and Cyber-Physical Environments

Abstract

Cyber physical systems (CPSs) are software-intensive smart distributed systems that support physical components endowed with integrated computational capabilities. Tiered, often wireless, networks are typically used to collect or push the data generated or required by a distributed set of CPS-based devices. The edge-to-core traffic flows on the tiered networks can become overwhelming. Thus, appropriate traffic engineering (TE) algorithms are required to manage the flows, while at the same time meeting the delivery requirements in terms of latency, jitter, and packet loss. This chapter provides a basic overview of CPSs followed by a discussion of a newly developed TE method called ‘constrained average', where traffic is by design allowed to be delayed up to a specified, but small value epsilon, but with zero packet loss.