QoS Management in the Future Internet

The talks about technological convergence had been around for almost twenty years. Today Internet made it possible. And this is not only technical evolution. The way it changed our lives reflected in variety of applications, services and technologies used in day-to-day life. Such benefits imposed even more requirements on heterogeneous and unreliable IP networks. Current paper outlines QoS management system developed in the NetQoS [1] project. It describes an overall architecture of management system for heterogeneous networks and proposes automated multi-layer QoS management. Paper focuses on the structure of the most crucial modules of the system that enable autonomous and multi-layer provisioning and dynamic adaptation.

Authors:

• S. Rao
• S. Khavtasi
• C. Chassot
• N. Van Wambeke
• F. Armando
• S. P. Romano
• T. Castaldi

Keywords:

• Automated QoS management
• multi-layerprovisioning and adaptation
• QoS
• QoE.

References:

[1] Project NetQoS website: http://www.netqos.eu.
[2] NetQoS project deliverable 2.2 NetQoS functional architecture
[3] NetQoS project deliverable 3.2 NetQoS system integration
[4] NetQoS project deliverable 2.5 Policy Implementation
[5] Nicolas Van Wambeke, Francois Armando, Christophe Chassot, Ernesto
Exposito, "A model-based approach for self-adaptive Transport
protocols", In Press, Elsevier Computer Communication's Special Issue
on End-to-end Support over Heterogeneous Wired-Wireless Networks,
2008. doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2008.02.026.
[6] Christophe Chassot, K.arim Guennoun, Khalil Drira, François Armando,
Ernesto Exposito and André Lozes, "Towards Autonomous Management
of QoS through Model-Driven Adaptability in Communication-Centric
Systems", International Transactions on Systems Science and
Applications, Volume 2 Number 3 (2006), p. 255-264.
[7] ITU recommendation G.1010 available for download:
ftp://ftp.tiaonline.org/TR30/TR303/Public/0312%20Lake%20Buena%20
Vista/G1010%20-%2011-01.doc