Abstract
This research studies and designs techniques for coordinated network monitoring, traffic conditioning, and flow control as integral components of the edge routers in a network
domain. The enhanced edge routers yield secure network domains, and achieve better performance
in terms of high data throughput, low delay, and low loss rates. The potential performance gain from the proposed techniques is critical for the current and emerging network services such as multimedia applications. Using simulation, we evaluate the edge router for data intensive applications such as FTP and delay sensitive applications such as
Telnet and Web. The contributions of this thesis can be summarized as follows:
