During the last few years, users all over the world have become more and more accustomed to the availability of broadband access. This has boosted the use of a wide variety both o...
Next-generation network (NGN) is a new concept and becoming more and more important for future telecommunication networks. This paper illustrates five function layers of NGN archit...
Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic beha...
The migration of the Internet from classic computer communication to a platform for multimedia applications with real-time communication requires end-to-end improvements of the ne...
This paper describes a hierarchical architecture of active policies that performs the management of a differentiated services (DiffServ) network. These policies monitor quality of ...