Quality of Service Support in an IP-ATM Environment

The evolution in networking technologies in the recent years has been driven by the development of such new multimedia applications as voice, video, graphics etc. If the Internet is to keep pace with the requirements of these applications, it is clear that Internet Service Providers must not only provide higher link capacities but also deploy more sophisticated service architectures. Another crucial task for building an Internet is the selection of a QoS-capable link layer. Asynchronous Transfer Mode could be the right support for the future Internet as it can deliver QoS to IP layer and has very high throughput. This book addresses some approaches to facilitate QoS guarantees in the Internet and to provide a flexible and scaleable environment for IP packets with differentiated QoS requirements over an ATM-based MPLS environment.

Autorentext
The Author: Huu Thanh Nguyen received Bachelor and Master in Communications Engineering from Hanoi University of Technology, Hanoi/Vietnam. Since 1997 he has been with the Institute of Information Technology Systems at the Universität der Bundeswehr of Munich, Germany under sponsorship of the German Academic Exchange Service. His research interests mainly focus on QoS architectures in the Internet, IP-ATM interaction and performance evaluation of high-speed networks.

Inhalt
Contents: Quality of Service Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Packet Scheduling Internet ATM High-speed Networks.