Distributed admission control for QoS and SLS management

This article proposes a distributed admission control (AC) model based on on-line monitoring to manage the quality of Internet services and Service Level Specifications (SLSs) in class-based networks. The AC strategy covers intra- and interdomain operation, without adding significant complexity to the network control plane and involving only edge nodes. While ingress nodes perform implicit or explicit AC resorting to service-oriented rules for SLS and QoS parameters control, egress nodes collect service metrics providing them as inputs for AC. The end-to-end operation is viewed as a cumulative and repetitive process of AC and available service computation.We discuss crucial key points of the model implementation and evaluate its two main components: themonitoring process and the AC criteria. The results show that, using proper AC rules and safety margins, service commitments can be efficiently satisfied, and the simplicity and flexibility of the model can be explored to manage successfully QoS requirements of multiple Internet services.(undefined

A distributed admission control model for class-based networks using edge-toedge QoS and SLS monitoring

The advent of class-based networks has brought new needs for network traffic control in order to assure a certain QoS level. Despite the existing proposals, achieving a generic admission control (AC) strategy for traffic entering these networks is still an open issue. This paper provides new insights on how AC shall be accomplished proposing an encompassing AC model for multi-service class-based networks, which covers both intra-domain and end-to-end operation, without requiring changes in the network core and complex AC signaling. For each service type, AC is distributed and based on both on-line edge-to-edge monitoring of relevant QoS parameters and SLSs utilization. Service monitoring, performed at egress nodes, provides adequate metrics to ingress nodes which take implicit or explicit AC decisions based on service-dependent criteria. Although being oriented to flow AC, the model can easily be applied to SLS AC. SLS auditing and SLS traffic conditioning are tasks also covered

Achieving "always best connected" through extensive profile managment

International audienceThe integration of various access networks into a ubiquitous,yet heterogeneous, wireless environment is on the way. This evolution of the mobile network will give the end-user a greater choice of access tech-nologies, and, therefore, the decision to select the “best” interface andaccess network from many possible combinations has to be taken. The decision will depend on information such as: performances and capabilities of the available networks, requirements from applications, user preferences, or network operators’ constraints. Our work focuses on an advanced middleware which deals with profile management to supportthe interface automatic configuration and selection. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism supports the dynamic (re)mapping of the application flows by taking into consideration multiple selection criteri

Internet Przyszłości – nowa generacja sieci telekomunikacyjnych. Telekomunikacja i Techniki Informacyjne, 2009, nr 3-4

Obecna sieć internet opiera się na stosie protokołów TCP/IP oraz dwóch głównych założeniach: na oferowaniu jednej klasy usług (tj. usługi best effort) oraz przewymiarowaniu sieci. Te założenia projektowe w istotny sposób ograniczają obecnie rozwój sieci internet, uniemożliwiając oferowanie usług wymagających przekazu informacjiw czasie rzeczywistym. W artykule przedstawiono wyniki dotychczasowych prac ukierunkowanych na wprowadzenie jakości przekazu pakietów w sieci internet oraz przyjęte na dzień dzisiejszy główne założenia budowy sieci, nazwanej Internet Przyszłości