INDEX

INTRODUCTION

PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

INTRODUCTION TO DATA COMPRESSION

LOSSLESS COMPRESSION
LOSSY COMPRESSION

STATISTICAL VS. DICTIONARY COMPRESSION

COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS

SHANNON-FANO ENCODING
HUFFMAN CODING
RUN-LENGTH ENCODING
LZ77 ENCODING
LZW CODING
ARITHMETIC CODING
LZS (STAC) CODING
PREDICTOR

HOW ROUTERS USE COMPRESSION

CISCO DATA COMPRESSION SOLUTIONS

TCP/IP HEADER COMPRESSION
PER-VIRTUAL CIRCUIT COMPRESSION
COMPRESSION BEFORE VERSUS AFTER ENCAPSULATION
COMPRESSION OF ENCRYPTION DATA
MICROSOFT POINT TO POINT COMPRESSION MPPC
FRAME RELAY PAYLOAD COMPRESSION

DATA COMPRESSION DESIGN ISSUES

NUMBER OF REMOTE SITES
INCREASED LATENCY
THROUGHPUT OR CONGESTION MANAGEMENT
MEMORY REQUIREMENTS
SPEED
COMPRESSION RATIO’S

INTRODUCTION TO QUEUING

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT

FIRST-IN, FIRST-OUT QUEUING
FAIR QUEUING
WEIGHTED FAIR QUEUING

ADVANCED QUEUING TECHNIQUES

PRIORITY QUEUING
CLASS-BASED WEIGHTED FAIR QUEUING
LOW LATENCY QUEUING
INTERNET PROTOCOL REAL-TIME PROTOCOL PRIORITY (IP RTP PRIORITY)

PROJECT PLANNING

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

CHARTS

CRITICAL APPRAISAL

CONCLUSION

LITERATURE RESEARCH

GLOSSARY

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