Panel

Abstract

This panel will contribute to the understanding of the role of QoS in networking; specifically what are emerging topics in Premium IP networking. This topic relates closely to the vision of Ambient Networking as a research area that links network interoperability with reconfiguration capabilities to meet challenges such as mobility, QoS, multi-homing, and multimedia.

Premium IP networking is currently in its infancy, and applications that can exploit Premium IP features are rare today. In order to bring the excellent initial achievements of Europe towards full-scale Premium IP deployment, a concerted effort is needed by key participants to develop, validate and demonstrate on a large scale improved features for the provision of enhanced IP communications services.

Proposed trends for Premium IP include:

• Shifting the focus from QoS mechanisms and SLAs to a more holistic view of the “end-to-end performance problem”:

• Building expertise across several areas that are traditionally separate, but whose interaction determines the end-to-end performance: performance in the individual parts of the network, computer/OS architecture, transport and higher-layer protocols, etc.

• Investigating end-to-end Premium IP services in an environment consisting of a multiplicity of heterogeneous domains.

The ability to support new services (such as Premium services) requires the deployment of new hardware and/or software features in the network.

The list of panelists shows distinguished experts in their ares of research as well as their current or most recent European projects they worked on:

• Martin Potts, Martel, Switzerland (CADENUS)

• Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal (MOBY DICK)

• Bert Koch, Siemens, Germany (AQUILA)

• Bob Briscoe, Research, U.K. (M3I)

• Simon Leinen, Switch, Switzerland (SEQUIN, GEANT)