TY - CHAP T1 - Providing Quality of Service across multiple providers: The case of European research and academic space T2 - Intelligent Quality of Service Technologies and Network Management: Models for Enhancing Communication Y1 - 2010 A1 - Christos Bouras A1 - Apostolos Gkamas A1 - Kostas Stamos AB -

In this chapter, the authors present some of the latest developments related to the provisioning of Quality of Service (QoS) in today?s networks and the associated network management structures that are or will be deployed to support them. They first give a brief overview of the most important Quality of Service proposals in the areas of Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) QoS provisioning in backbone networks, and they discuss the network management structures and brokers that have been proposed in order to implement these services. As a case study, they describe the pan-european research and academic network, which is supported centrally by GEANT and which encompasses multiple independent NRENs (National Research and Education Networks). In the last few years, GEANT has developed and deployed a number of production and pilot services meant for the delivery of quality network services to the end users across Europe.

JF - Intelligent Quality of Service Technologies and Network Management: Models for Enhancing Communication PB - IGI Global ER -