Although many environments are powered by M2M solutions, users do not have a simple way to gather their collective knowledge and program devices’ behaviour. Also, Telco providers still lack proper components for enabling integrated services over their networks. We present the final architecture of the APOLLO project, which delivers a enhanced M2M platform encompassing sensors, management and ap...

When reservation-based service differentiation is offered in an IP network, it is crucial for a network provider to appropriately charge for service invocations. For internal calculation as well as external price representation, a notion of costs and prices for communication services is needed. In this paper, general requirements for cost and price calculation are analysed for packetswitched mu...

Haixia Zhang*y, Dongfeng Yuan and Cheng-Xiang Wang School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China China Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Network, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shanxi, China National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt Un...

This memo defines a set of general control and characterization parameters for network elements supporting the IETF integrated services QoS control framework. General parameters are those with common, shared definitions across all QoS control services.

This paper overviews a novel transfer mode for B-ISDN: Loosely-synchronous Transfer Mode (LTM). LTM operates by signaling periphery nodes when destinations become available. No frame structure is imposed by LTM, thus avoiding adaptation layers. Additionally, LTM can deliver a spectrum of guaranteed quality of services. New Synchronous Protocol Stacks (SPSs) build on LTM by synchronizing their a...

1 Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima, 2-1 Minamijosanjima-cho, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan 2Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyoku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan 3Department of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering ...

This document was originally submitted as an internet draft in November of 1997. As one of the documents predating the formation of the IETF’s Differentiated Services Working Group, many of the ideas presented here, in concert with Dave Clark’s subsequent presentation to the December 1997 meeting of the IETF Integrated Services Working Group, were key to the work which led to RFCs 2474 and 2475...