This book addresses three important issues in VoIP networks: Quality of Service, pricing and security. It also develops a pricing model based on the Quality of Service provided in VoIP networks and explores areas for future research.

Assesses the impact of risks constituted by a number of transportation channels Develops a pricing model based on the Quality of Service provided in VoIP networks Extends and applies the delay throughput analysis Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Introduction.- Voice over Internet Protocol.- Traffic Characterization.- Impact of Bounded Delays on Resource Consumption in Packet Switched Networks with M/M/1 Traffic.- Impact of Bounded Delay on Resource Consumption-M/D/1 Model.- Impact of Bounded Jitter on Resource Consumption in Multi-hop Networks.- Cost and Quality in Packet Switched Networks: An Abstract Approach.- Cumulative Impact of Inhomogeneous Channels on Risk.- A Network Based Authentication Scheme for VoIP.- Conclusions and Future Work.