Original proposal: in french

French title: Estimation de paramètres et analyse des performances de diverses applications réseaux

English title: Parameter estimation and performance analysis of several network applications

Advisor: Philippe Nain

Research laboratory: Mistral team at INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Defense date: November 8, 2002

Slides of the defense: PowerPoint file

Electronic version of the report: postscript file, pdf file (208 pages)

Notes on the report's organization: The report contains:

• a front page and acknowledgements (in french) (postscript file, pdf file)
• a french summary of the thesis work (20 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
• a table of contents, a list of figures and a list of tables (8 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
• an english report (157 pages) detailing the thesis work and organized as follows:
  • Introduction (4 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
  • Chapter 1: Inference models to estimate network characteristics (58 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
  • Chapter 2: Estimation of multicast membership (51 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
  • Chapter 3: Analysis of two agent location mechanisms in a mobile environment (40 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
  • Chapter 4: Conclusion (3 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
• a glossary (2 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
• a bibliography (9 pages) (postscript file, pdf file)
• an abstract written both in french and english (1 page) (postscript file, pdf file)