Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility

Service and network providers must be able to satisfy the demands for new services; improve the quality of service; reduce the cost of network service operations and maintenance; control performance; and adapt to user demands. It is essential to investigate different approaches for performing such tasks.
One of these approaches is based on policies and the capability of the network to adapt itself to current conditions. With a focus on policy-based networking, this volume addresses the problem of network control and the introduction of policies such as the control of the Quality of Service, security, mobility, performance, mobile and intelligent agents, and traffic engineering.
The area of control in networks through policies promises to provide stimulating challenges for years to come. This book is an attempt to answer questions and provide some direction about the best approaches to be followed.
This volume contains the proceedings of the first International Conference on NETwork CONtrol and Engineering (NETCON) for Quality of Service, Security and Mobility, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and organized by IFIP TC6 Working Group 6.7 (Smart Networks). The conference convened in Paris, France in October 2002.

Inhalt
Policy and Mobility.- Policy Based Access Router Selections and Context Transfers in Mobile IP Networks.- Policy Based Management of Wireless Networks.- Multi-Domain Policy Architecture for IP Multimedia Subsystem in Umts.- A New Policy-Aware Terminal.- Policy and VPN.- Implementing a VPN Service with Policy Rules.- Adaptive Segment Path Restoration (ASPR) in MPLS Networks.- A Policy Information Model for RFC2547-Like IP VPNs.- Security.- Security and Resource Policy-Based Management Architecture for Alan Servers.- An EAP-BT Smartcard for Authentication in the Next Generation of Wireless Communications.- A Policy-Based Approach to Firewall Management.- Active Networks.- Policy-Based Management with Active Networks.- Deployment and Experimentation of an Active Network at a:Large Scale: Amarrage.- Robust Implementation of Policies Using Ant-Like Agents.- Agents: A Solution for Telecommunication Network Simulation.- Policy Performance.- A Policy-Based Bandwidth Resource Provisioning Architecture.- Policy-Based Service Level Negotiation with COPS-SLS.- Performance of a Multi-Tiered Policy-Based Management System.- A Simple Performance Policy Management Environment.- Policy and Services.- A Distributed Policy Approach in Support of Multimedia Session Establishment.- A Dynamic Control System for Adjusting Prices and Quality of Service in DS Enabled Networks.- The Design and Implementation of Policy-Based Bandwidth Billing System.- Posters 1.- Improvement of Performance in Mpls Domains by Using Caching and Aggregation of CR-LSP.- On Enhancing Diffserv Architecture by Dynamic Policy Provisioning Using Network Feedback.- A Tool to Monitor the Network Quality of Service.- An Intelligent Policy-Based Networking Environment for Dynamic Negotiation, Provisioning and Control of QoS.-A Novel Two-Step Mpeg Traffic Modeling Algorithm Based on a GBAR Process.- Admission Control Schemes Guaranteeing Customer QoS in Commercial Web Sites.- Media Switch for Multimedia Services.- Traffic Engineering.- Building Intelligent Traffic Engineering Solutions.- Generalized Processor Sharing Scheduling Enhancement Through Session Decomposition.- Allocating Bandwidth Using Fair Random Indication with Discarding Aggressiveness Yardstick (Friday).- Traffic Engineering and Diffser.- An API for Advanced Traffic Control in Diffserv Routers.- Better Early Packet Discard.- Per-Flow Signalling Extension Across Diffserv Domains.- A Prototype SNMP Management Framework for Diffserv Linux Routers, Its Implementation and Performance.- Posters 2.- Policy-Driven Model for Security Management.- Policy Formalization to Combine Separate Systems Into Larger Connected Network of Trust.- ISAM: A Pervasive View in Distributed Mobile Computing.- Wireless Set: An Approach for the Deployment of Set Over WAP Mobile Networks.- Traffic Engineering and TCP.- Adaptive Low Priority Packet Marking for Better TCP Performance.- A Solution for Improving TCP Performance Over Wireless Links.- Enhanced Bandwidth Estimation Algorithms in the TCP Congestion Control Scheme.