Preface |
Acknowledgements |
List of Figures |
List of Tables |
Abbreviations |
Drivers for the Adoption of Multi-service Networks |
Service Quality Requirements |
Network Mechanisms for Multi-service Quality Support |
Traffic Engineering for Multi-service IP Networks / 1: |
Mapping Service Requirements to Network Resources |
Service Level Management Techniques |
Measurements / 1.1: |
Mechanisms for Dynamic Service Quality Control |
Customer Perspective |
Case Study: Service Quality Support in an IP-based Cellular RAN |
Conclusion / 1.2: |
References |
Network Operator Perspective |
Index |
Service Provider Perspective / 1.3: |
Summary / 1.4: |
Services on the Internet / 2: |
Definition of a Service / 2.2: |
End user service versus provider-level services / 2.2.1: |
About service instances and service events / 2.2.2: |
Reference model for this section / 2.2.3: |
Service Quality Estimation / 2.3: |
Measures of end user experienced service quality / 2.3.1: |
Recency effect / 2.3.2: |
Psychological factors / 2.3.3: |
Service Implementation Aspects / 2.3.4: |
Choice of transport protocols / 2.4.1: |
Throughput adaptability of services / 2.4.2: |
Inherent Service Quality Requirements / 2.5: |
Service quality characterizations in standards / 2.5.1: |
Availability of service / 2.5.2: |
Continuity of service / 2.5.3: |
Delivery time end-to-end / 2.5.4: |
Throughput / 2.5.5: |
Support for continuous service data unit transmission / 2.5.6: |
Reliability of service delivery / 2.5.7: |
Support for variable transfer rate / 2.5.8: |
Generic considerations related to service requirements / 2.5.9: |
Service Quality Descriptors / 2.6: |
Measurement-based determination of traffic profile / 2.6.1: |
Introduction to Network Quality Support / 2.7: |
Policing of Traffic at Ingress / 3.2: |
About Layers / 3.3: |
Types of Network Support for Service Quality / 3.4: |
Capacity reservation / 3.4.1: |
Differentiated treatment / 3.4.2: |
Differentiation of service quality instantiation / 3.4.3: |
Summary of generic network service quality support mechanisms / 3.4.4: |
Service Support in ATM / 3.5: |
ATM service models / 3.5.1: |
Summary of ATM service support / 3.5.2: |
Service Support Models in Internet Protocol / 3.6: |
Best effort service model / 3.6.1: |
Controlled-load service support / 3.6.2: |
Guaranteed QoS support / 3.6.3: |
RSVP / 3.6.4: |
Statistical QoS: DiffServ model / 3.6.5: |
EF PHB / 3.6.5.1: |
AF PHB group / 3.6.5.2: |
Other PHBs / 3.6.5.3: |
Functions of a DiffServ router / 3.6.5.4: |
Summary of DiffServ / 3.6.5.5: |
Summary of IP QoS service models / 3.6.6: |
Routing in IP Networks / 3.7: |
On addressing / 3.7.1: |
IP routing protocol-based methods / 3.7.2: |
ATM overlays / 3.7.3: |
Lower layer tunnels: MPLS / 3.7.4: |
Link Layer Issues / 3.8: |
Performance / 3.8.1: |
A note on scheduling / 3.8.2: |
Traffic Engineering / 3.9: |
Context of traffic engineering / 4.1.1: |
The traffic engineering process / 4.1.2: |
Obtaining performance data from the network and analysing it / 4.1.3: |
Traffic aggregate performance measurements / 4.1.3.1: |
Obtaining data relevant for routing control / 4.1.3.2: |
Performance enhancement / 4.1.4: |
Scope of network optimization / 4.1.5: |
IP Routing Control and Traffic Engineering / 4.2: |
Optimizing routing based on service quality characteristics / 4.2.1: |
Traffic engineering using MPLS / 4.2.2: |
DiffServ over MPLS / 4.2.2.1: |
Traffic engineering using IP routing protocols / 4.2.3: |
Configuration / 4.2.4: |
Policy-based management / 4.3.1: |
Policy-based management of DiffServ / 4.3.2: |
Case study of policy-based management of DiffServ / 4.3.2.1: |
Scope of this Chapter / 4.4: |
ETSI EP TIPHON Reference Model / 5.2: |
Architecture / 5.2.1: |
QoS model / 5.2.2: |
QBONE / 5.2.3: |
Service support models / 5.3.1: |
3GPP QoS Model / 5.3.2: |
Other Models / 5.4.1: |
Utility-based Allocation of Resources / 5.6: |
Generic Resource Allocation Framework / 5.6.1: |
Signalling / 5.7.1: |
Mapping of services onto network resources / 5.7.2: |
Network quality support configuration for DiffServ / 5.7.3: |
End-to-end service quality budgets / 5.7.4: |
Delay / 5.7.4.1: |
Delay variation / 5.7.4.2: |
Packet loss rate / 5.7.4.3: |
Packet loss correlation / 5.7.4.4: |
Optimization of resource allocation / 5.7.4.5: |
Models for Service Level Management / 5.8: |
Areas of service level management / 6.1.1: |
Layers of service level management / 6.1.2: |
Models for managed data / 6.1.3: |
Service Planning and Creation Process / 6.2: |
Interests of the customer / 6.2.1: |
Network operator viewpoint / 6.2.2: |
Service definition / 6.2.3: |
Reporting / 6.2.4: |
Service Level Agreements / 6.3: |
SLA and DiffServ / 6.3.1: |
SLA contents / 6.3.2: |
End user SLAs / 6.3.3: |
End-to-end Services / 6.4: |
Assumptions about connection endpoints / 6.4.1: |
Assumptions about per-domain service management / 6.4.2: |
Requirements for end-to-end service management / 6.4.3: |
Service Brokers and Charging / 6.5: |
Traffic Characterization / 6.6: |
Network Monitoring / 7.2: |
Troubleshooting measurements for services / 7.2.1: |
Traffic Control / 7.3: |
Definition of Measured Characteristics / 7.4: |
Sources of Measurement Data / 7.5: |
Measurement interfaces / 7.5.1: |
Measured characteristics / 7.5.2: |
Measurement Methods / 7.6: |
Obtaining performance data from network elements / 7.6.1: |
Monitoring a link / 7.6.2: |
Monitoring a route or node pair / 7.6.3: |
Traffic Engineering Measurement Infrastructure / 7.7: |
Measuring entity / 7.7.1: |
Interface to measuring entity / 7.7.2: |
Measurement control and analysis function / 7.7.3: |
Internet Service Quality Measurement Architectures / 7.8: |
QBone measurement architecture / 7.8.1: |
Discussion / 7.8.1.1: |
Nokia Research Center measurement architecture demonstrator / 7.8.2: |
Previous Studies / 7.8.2.1: |
Two-bit DiffServ architecture / 8.1.1: |
Bandwidth broker in QBone architecture / 8.1.2: |
Phase 0 Bandwidth Broker / 8.1.2.1: |
Phase 1 Bandwidth Broker / 8.1.2.2: |
QoS Agents / 8.1.3: |
Generic Model / 8.2: |
Service quality support instantiation control / 8.2.1: |
Signalling interface / 8.2.1.1: |
Internal bandwidth broker operation / 8.2.1.2: |
Domain control / 8.2.2: |
Link to traffic engineering / 8.2.2.1: |
Means of maintaining information about resource availability / 8.2.2.2: |
Inter-domain signalling / 8.2.3: |
Link to service admission control / 8.2.4: |
Motivation for Using IP-based Transport in Cellular RAN / 8.3: |
IP RAN Transport Architecture / 9.2: |
PLMN transport architecture / 9.2.1: |
IP RAN transport architecture / 9.2.2: |
Handover traffic / 9.2.3: |
Service mapping in IP RAN / 9.2.4: |
Traffic Engineering in All-IP RAN / 9.3: |
Capacity planning / 9.3.1: |
Capacity management / 9.3.2: |
Traffic management / 9.3.3: |
Enabling Technologies for Traffic Engineering in IP RAN / 9.4: |
Inter-operation with IP-based Backbones and Roaming Networks / 9.4.1: |
IP as the Convergence Network / 9.6: |
DiffServ / 10.2: |
Complementary technologies for DiffServ / 10.2.1: |
Service Level Management / 10.3: |
Potential Future Development Directions / 10.4: |