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Chairat Phongphanphanee, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Pattarasinee Bhattarakosol, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ohm Sornil, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
Pramote Kuacharoen, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
Luck Charoenwatana, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
Morris Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, USA
Sunyoung Han, Konkuk University, Korea
Jongwon Choe, Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea
Yongtae Shin, Soongsil University, Korea
Hyunseung Choo, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Table of Contents
Foreword ........................................................................................................................................... xvii
Preface ................................................................................................................................................ xix
Section 1
Quality of Services
Chapter 1
Introduction to Quality of Service .......................................................................................................... 1
Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Fidel Liberal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Armando Ferro, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Chapter 2
An Analysis of Quality of Service Architectures: Principles, Requirements, and Future Trends ........ 15
Eduardo M. D. Marques, University of Madeira, Portugal
Lina M. P. L. de Brito, University of Madeira, Portugal
Paulo N. M. Sampaio, University of Madeira, Portugal
Laura M. Rodríguez Peralta, University of Madeira, Portugal
Chapter 3
IP Quality of Service Models ................................................................................................................ 36
Sherine M. Abd El-Kader, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Chapter 4
QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks ........................................................................................................ 53
Ghalib A. Shah, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Shaleeza Sohail, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Faisal B. Hussain, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Chapter 5
Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks:
Current State of the Art ......................................................................................................................... 75
Shivanajay Marwaha, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia
Section 2
Network Management Model
Chapter 6
Traffic Controller for Handling Service Quality in Multimedia Network ............................................ 96
Manjunath Ramachandra, Philips - Bangalore, India
Vikas Jain, Philips – Bangalore, India
Chapter 7
Multiple Optimization of Network Carrier and Traffic Flow Goals Using a Heuristic Routing
Decision System.................................................................................................................................. 113
Wayne S. Goodridge, University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Shyamala C Sivakumar, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
William Robertson, Dalhousie University, Canada
William J. Phillips, Dalhousie University, Canada
Chapter 8
QoS Routing and Management in Backbone Networks ..................................................................... 138
Gilles Bertrand, Institut Telecom, France
Samer Lahoud, IRISA-University of Rennes I, France
Miklós Molnár, IRISA-INSA, France
Géraldine Texier, Institut Telecom, France
Chapter 9
Providing Quality of Service to Computer Networks through Traffic Modeling: Improving the
Estimation of Bandwidth and Data Loss Probability.......................................................................... 160
Flávio Henrique Teles Vieira, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil
George E. Bozinis, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil
Section 3
Integrations of Quality of Service and Network Management Model
Chapter 10
Disruption in the ICT-Sector: Will Former Telecommunications Monopolists Stumble
across VoIP? ........................................................................................................................................ 182
Justus Bross, University of Potsdam, Germany
Long Wang, University of Potsdam, Germany
Rehab AlNemr, University of Potsdam, Germany
Chapter 11
Traffic and Network Performance Monitoring for Effective Quality of Service
and Network Management .................................................................................................................. 201
P. Papantoni-Kazakos, University of Colorado Denver, USA
A.T. Burrell, Oklahoma State University, USA
Chapter 12
Model Based Approach for QoS Constrained Communication and Data Integration among
Multiple Agents................................................................................................................................... 228
Manjunath Ramachandra, Philips - Bangalore, India
Vikas Jain, Philips - Bangalore, India
Chapter 13
Exploiting the Inter-Domain Hierarchy for the QoS Network Management...................................... 239
Marc-Antoine Weisser, SUPELEC, France
Joanna Tomasik, SUPELEC, France
Dominique Barth, PRiSM, The University of Versailles, France
Chapter 14
Scalable Intra and Inter Domain IPv6 QoS Management and Pricing Scheme .................................. 256
El-Bahlul Fgee, Dalhousie University, Canada
Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
William J. Phillips, Dalhousie University, Canada
William Robertson, Dalhousie University, Canada
Chapter 15
Providing Quality of Service across Multiple Providers: The Case of European Research
and Academic Space ........................................................................................................................... 280
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece
Apostolos Gkamas, University of Patras, Greece
Kostas Stamos, University of Patras, Greece
Chapter 16
QoS Guaranteed Based Network Management Policies in the Integration of Wired
and Wireless Architecture of a Healthcare Network ........................................................................... 297
Pattarasinee Bhattarakosol, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Watcharaporn Tanchotsrinon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Chapter 17
QoS Signaling Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ........................................................................ 322
Ohm Sornil, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
Compilation of References ............................................................................................................... 333
About the Contributors .................................................................................................................... 365
Index ................................................................................................................................................... 374
Detailed Table of Contents
Foreword ........................................................................................................................................... xvii
Preface ................................................................................................................................................ xix
Section 1
Quality of Services
Chapter 1
Introduction to Quality of Service .......................................................................................................... 1
Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Fidel Liberal, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Armando Ferro, University of the Basque Country, Spain
The advent and rise of broadband technologies and new applications and services have led to a complex
heterogeneous scenario in which providing Quality of Service (QoS) has become a compelling issue.
Furthermore, the competitive condition of the telecommunications environment has caused user’s percep-
tion of quality to become one of the most differential factors for service providers. Due to this fact, QoS
must not only attend to specific technical metrics, but more important, QoS criteria should be defined to
assure the level of quality to fulfill the users’ requirements. In this new context, the definition of effec-
tive user-oriented QoS management models and frameworks has become a matter of contention. This
chapter aims to provide readers a comprehensive analysis of the entire significance of a user-centered
approach for quality of service management. For this purpose, a review of the most important issues
related to the subject is provided.
Chapter 2
An Analysis of Quality of Service Architectures: Principles, Requirements, and Future Trends ........ 15
Eduardo M. D. Marques, University of Madeira, Portugal
Lina M. P. L. de Brito, University of Madeira, Portugal
Paulo N. M. Sampaio, University of Madeira, Portugal
Laura M. Rodríguez Peralta, University of Madeira, Portugal
During the last years Internet evolution demanded for new and richer applications. To fulfill the novel
and more complex application requirements, new solutions in many domains were required. One of these
domains is the network support, assuring, into some extend, a specific or predictable treatment to traffic;
therefore, in this chapter, we present a broad view of the main efforts available on the literature in order
to provide Quality of Service (QoS) in both wired networks and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). For
this purpose, the authors present: (1) the more relevant QoS architectures and technologies along with
some of its recent improvements; (2) the different perspectives that combine some of those architectures
and technologies into more complex solutions, in order to achieve stronger QoS and/or performance;
(3) the most relevant QoS issues in WSNs environments; and (4) through the comparison of the several
solutions, the authors list the advantages and limitations and reveal some relations among the existing
QoS solutions.
Chapter 3
IP Quality of Service Models ................................................................................................................ 36
Sherine M. Abd El-Kader, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Currently the Internet offers a point-to-point delivery service, which is based on the “best effort” delivery
model. In this model, data will be delivered to its destination as soon as possible, but with no commit-
ment about bandwidth or latency. Using protocols such as the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP),
the highest guarantee the network provides is reliable data delivery. This is adequate for traditional data
applications like e-mail, web browsing, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Telnet, but inadequate for
applications requiring timeliness. For example, multimedia conferencing or audio and video streaming
applications, which require high bandwidth capacity and are sensitive to delay and delay variation. For
these applications to perform adequately, Quality of Services (QoS) must be quantified and managed,
and the Internet must be modified to support real-time QoS and controlled end-to-end delays. The efforts
to enable end-to-end QoS over the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) networks have led to the develop-
ment of two different architectures, the Integrated services architecture (Intserv) and the Differentiated
services architecture (Diffserv), which although different, support services that go beyond the best effort
service. This chapter will present a detailed discussion on these IPv4 quality of services models. First,
the Integrated services architecture with its related issues such as the reservation setup protocol will be
demonstrated. Second, the Differentiated services architecture with a description of the services they
provide will be described. Finally, a comparison between the Best-effort, the Integrated and Differenti-
ated services will be done.
Chapter 4
QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks ........................................................................................................ 53
Ghalib A. Shah, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Shaleeza Sohail, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Faisal B. Hussain, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been envisioned as a new and effective means for creating
and deploying previously unimaginable applications. These networks generally have the capabilities
of observing the physical phenomena, communication, data processing and dissemination. Limited re-
sources of sensor nodes like energy, bandwidth and processing abilities, make these networks excellent
candidates for incorporating QoS framework. The possible applications of WSNs are numerous while
being diverse in nature which makes analyzing and designing QoS support for each application a non-
trivial task. At the same time, these applications require different type of QoS support from the network
for optimum performance. A single layer cannot address all these issues, hence, numerous researchers
have proposed protocols and architectures for QoS support at different network layers. In this chapter,
we identify the generic QoS parameters which are usually supported at different layers of WSNs protocol
stack and investigate their importance in different application models. A brief overview of significant
research contribution at every network layer is provided. It is worthwhile to mention that same QoS pa-
rameter may be supported at multiple layers, hence, adequate selection of suitable mechanism would be
application’s choice. On the other hand, it is quite possible that a single QoS parameter, such as energy
conservation or real-time delivery, can be efficiently supported through interaction of multiple layers. It
is difficult, if not impossible to optimize multi layer QoS architecture. Hence, a number of researchers
have also proposed the idea of cross layer architecture for providing QoS support for a number of sensor
applications, which is also discussed in this chapter. At the end, the authors highlight the open research
issues that might be the focus of future research in this area.
Chapter 5
Quality of Service Provisioning in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks:
Current State of the Art ......................................................................................................................... 75
Shivanajay Marwaha, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia
Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia
Wireless networks such as Bluetooth, WLAN and WiMax have transformed the way we access infor-
mation and communicate seamlessly whether we are at home, in the office, or on the move on a train,
bus or even aircraft. As mobile and embedded computing devices become more omnipresent, it will
become increasingly difficult to interconnect them via wires and single-hop wireless links limited by
radio transmission range. This has given rise to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) where far away
nodes communicate by requesting intermediate nodes to relay their information in order to reach the
destination. MANETs self-organize, self-configure and self-heal themselves. MANETs are being used in
many applications ranging from emergency response situations to wireless vehicular ad hoc networks.
Many applications of MANETs such as Emergency Response and First Responders have strict Quality
of Service (QoS) requirements for their communications systems, making MANET QoS provision-
ing mechanisms very crucial for supporting multimedia communications such as real-time audio and
video. However, QoS provisioning in highly dynamic networks such as MANETs is a very challenging
problem compared to QoS provisioning in wireline IP networks. This is due to numerous reasons such
as the dynamic network topology, unpredictable communication medium and limited battery power of
mobile devices forming the network. This chapter describes the challenges and the current state of the
art of QoS protocols and mechanisms in MANETs.
Section 2
Network Management Model
Chapter 6
Traffic Controller for Handling Service Quality in Multimedia Network ............................................ 96
Manjunath Ramachandra, Philips - Bangalore, India
Vikas Jain, Philips – Bangalore, India
The present day Internet traffic largely caters for the multimedia traffic throwing open new and unthink-
able applications such as tele-surgery. The complexity of data transactions increases with a demand
for in time and real time data transfers, demanding the limited resources of the network beyond their
capabilities. It requires a prioritization of data transfers, controlled dumping of data over the network
etc. To make the matter worse, the data from different origin combine together imparting long lasting
detrimental features such as self similarity and long range dependency in to the traffic. The multimedia
data fortunately is associated with redundancies that may be removed through efficient compression
techniques. There exists a provision to control the compression or bitrates based on the availability of
resources in the network. The traffic controller or shaper has to optimize the quality of the transferred
multimedia data depending up on the state of the network. In this chapter, a novel traffic shaper is intro-
duced considering the adverse properties of the network and counteract with the same.
Chapter 7
Multiple Optimization of Network Carrier and Traffic Flow Goals Using a Heuristic Routing
Decision System.................................................................................................................................. 113
Wayne S. Goodridge, University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Shyamala C Sivakumar, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
William Robertson, Dalhousie University, Canada
William J. Phillips, Dalhousie University, Canada
This chapter presents a multiple constraint optimization algorithm called routing decision system (RDS)
that uses the concept of preference functions to address the problem of selecting paths in core networks
that satisfy traffic-oriented QoS requirements while simultaneously satisfying network resource-oriented
performance goals. The original contribution lies in the use of strong scales employed for constructing a
multiple criteria preference function in an affine space. The use of preference functions makes it possible
for paths that match both traffic-oriented and resource-oriented goals to be selected by the algorithm.
The RDS algorithm is used in conjunction with a heuristic path finding algorithm called Constraint Path
Heuristic (CP-H) algorithm which is a novel approach to finding a set of constraint paths between source
and destination nodes in a network. The CP-H algorithm finds multiple paths for each metric and then
passes all the paths to the RDS algorithm. Simulation results showed that the CP-H/RDS algorithm has
a success rate of between 93 and 96% when used in Waxman graph topologies, and is shown to be sig-
nificantly better than other heuristic based algorithms under strict constraints. In addition, it is shown that
the associated execution time of the CP-H/RDS algorithm is slightly higher than other heuristic based
algorithms but good enough for use in an online traffic engineering (TE) application. Simulations to as-
sess the performance of CP-H/RDS algorithm in a TE environment show that the algorithms has lower
call block rates than other TE algorithms. It is also shown that the CP-H/RDS has a 96% probability of
providing at least two distinct feasible backup paths in addition to the main QoS path. A framework for
implementing the CP-H/RDS as a routing server is proposed. The routing decision system server (RDSS)
framework is novel in that the complexity introduced by QoS awareness remains outside the network.
Chapter 8
QoS Routing and Management in Backbone Networks ..................................................................... 138
Gilles Bertrand, Institut Telecom, France
Samer Lahoud, IRISA-University of Rennes I, France
Miklós Molnár, IRISA-INSA, France
Géraldine Texier, Institut Telecom, France
The Internet relies on the cooperation of competitive network operators that typically administrate their
networks unilaterally and autonomously to interconnect people and companies in different locations.
Recent work calls for extending this organizational model with augmented interactions between network
operators, to provide a higher level of endtoend quality of service and to ease certain aspects of traffic
management in backbone networks. This chapter presents the emerging collaborative network manage-
ment models as well as related technologies. In particular, it describes recent techniques for interdomain
traffic engineering and for qualityofservice aware routing. The detailed methods are of great interest for
network operators and permit the development of new types of commercial relationships between them,
ranging from simple interconnection agreements to collaborative traffic management and automated
provisioning.
Chapter 9
Providing Quality of Service to Computer Networks through Traffic Modeling: Improving the
Estimation of Bandwidth and Data Loss Probability.......................................................................... 160
Flávio Henrique Teles Vieira, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil
George E. Bozinis, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil
In this chapter, the authors examine two important network traffic issues: estimation of effective bandwidth
and data loss probability in communication networks. They focus on estimation approaches based on
network traffic modeling. Initially, the authors review some concepts related to network traffic model-
ing such as monofractal and multifractal properties. Further, the authors address the issue of estimating
the effective bandwidth for network traffic flows. Besides effective bandwidth, the knowledge of the
loss probability explicitly allows us to guarantee some QoS parameters required by the traffic flows, for
example, by discarding flows with intolerable byte loss rate. In this sense, they present an overview of
loss probability estimation methods including an approach that considers multifractal characteristics of
network traffic. That is, given the model parameters, the data loss probability for network traffic can be
directly computed. The authors conclude that both the multifractal based effective bandwidth and loss
probability estimation methods can be powerful tools for really providing QoS to network flows.
Section 3
Integrations of Quality of Service and Network Management Model
Chapter 10
Disruption in the ICT-Sector: Will Former Telecommunications Monopolists Stumble
across VoIP? ........................................................................................................................................ 182
Justus Bross, University of Potsdam, Germany
Long Wang, University of Potsdam, Germany
Rehab AlNemr, University of Potsdam, Germany
In this chapter the authors discuss innovations associated with the transition from the circuit-switched
public telephone network to IP packet-switched networks for the provision of voice services by focus-
ing on research findings in the area of quality of service (QoS). To give a meaningful answer on how
this transition affects the telecommunications industry, they elaborate on the frequently-cited concept
of disruptive innovations, pioneered by Harvard Professor Clayton M. Christensen.
Chapter 11
Traffic and Network Performance Monitoring for Effective Quality of Service
and Network Management .................................................................................................................. 201
P. Papantoni-Kazakos, University of Colorado Denver, USA
A.T. Burrell, Oklahoma State University, USA
The authors consider distributed mobile networks carrying time-varying heterogeneous traffics. To
deal effectively with the mobile and time-varying distributed environment, the deployment of traffic
and network performance monitoring techniques is necessary for the identification of traffic changes,
network failures, and also for the facilitation of protocol adaptations and topological modifications.
Concurrently, the heterogeneous traffic environment necessitates the deployment of hybrid informa-
tion transport techniques. This chapter discusses the design, analysis, and evaluation of distributed and
dynamic techniques which manage the traffic and monitor the network performance effectively, while
capturing the dynamics inherent in the mobile heterogeneous environments.
Chapter 12
Model Based Approach for QoS Constrained Communication and Data Integration among
Multiple Agents................................................................................................................................... 228
Manjunath Ramachandra, Philips - Bangalore, India
Vikas Jain, Philips - Bangalore, India
Meeting the agreed quality of service in a resource crunched data network is challenging. An intelligent
element is required to carry out the activities involved. The inferences drawn with different rules need
to be merged. Agents are useful for handling this responsibility in data networks and help in resource
sharing. An agent is basically an entity that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors
and acting upon its environment through effectors. To handle the network traffic, the agents acquire the
traffic status and provide the information on the availability of resources to the source of the traffic. Hence
the study on agent communication has become important. Intelligent agents continuously perform the
activities including perception of dynamic conditions in the environment, reasoning for interpretation
of the perceptions, solve problems, draw inferences and determine actions.
Chapter 13
Exploiting the Inter-Domain Hierarchy for the QoS Network Management...................................... 239
Marc-Antoine Weisser, SUPELEC, France
Joanna Tomasik, SUPELEC, France
Dominique Barth, PRiSM, The University of Versailles, France
The Internet is an interconnection of multiple networks called domains. Inter-domain routing is ensured
by BGP which preserves each domain’s independence and announces routes arbitrarily chosen by do-
mains. BGP messages carry no information concerning quality parameters of announced routes. Our
goal is to provide domains with information regarding the congestion state of other domains without any
changes in BGP. A domain, which is aware of heavily congested domains, can choose a bypass instead
of a route exhibiting possible problems with QoS satisfaction. The authors propose a mechanism which
sends alert messages in order to notify domains about the congestion state of other domains. The major
difficulty consists in avoiding flooding the Internet with signaling messages. Their solution limits the
number of alerts by taking advantage of the hierarchical structure of the Internet set by P2C and P2P
relationships. Their algorithm is distributed and heuristic because it is a solution to an NP-complete
and inapproximable problem. They prove these properties by reducing the Steiner problem in directed
acyclic graphs to our problem of alert diffusion. The simulations show that our mechanism significantly
diminishes the number of unavailable domains and routes compared to those obtained with BGP routing
and with a theoretical centralized mechanism.
Chapter 14
Scalable Intra and Inter Domain IPv6 QoS Management and Pricing Scheme .................................. 256
El-Bahlul Fgee, Dalhousie University, Canada
Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary’s University, Canada
William J. Phillips, Dalhousie University, Canada
William Robertson, Dalhousie University, Canada
Network multimedia applications constitute a large part of Internet traffic and guaranteed delivery of such
traffic is a challenge because of their sensitivity to delay, packet loss and higher bandwidth requirement.
The need for guaranteed traffic delivery is exacerbated by the increasing delay experienced by traffic
propagating through more than one QoS domain. Hence, there is a need for a flexible and a scalable QoS
manager that handles and manages the needs of traffic flows throughout multiple IPv6 domains. The
IPv6 QoS manager, presented in this paper, uses a combination of the packets’ flow ID and the source
address (Domain Global Identifier (DGI)), to process and reserve resources inside an IPv6 domain. To
ensure inter-domain QoS management, the QoS domain manager should also communicate with other
QoS domains’ managers to ensure that traffic flows are guaranteed delivery. In this scheme, the IPv6 QoS
manager handles QoS requests by either processing them locally if the intended destination is located
locally or forwards the request to the neighboring domain’s QoS manager. End-to-end QoS is achieved
with an integrated admission and management unit. The feasibility of the proposed QoS management
scheme is illustrated for both intra- and inter-domain QoS management. The scalability of the QoS man-
agement scheme for inter-domain scenarios is illustrated with simulations for traffic flows propagating
through two and three domains. Excellent average end-to-end delay results have been achieved when
traffic flow propagates through more than one domain. Simulations show that packets belonging to non-
conformant flows experience increased delay, and such packets are degraded to lower priority if they
exceed their negotiated traffic flow rates. Many pricing schemes have been proposed for QoS-enabled
networks. However, integrated pricing and admission control has not been studied in detail. A dynamic
pricing model is integrated with the IPv6 QoS manager to study the effects of increasing traffic flows
rates on the increased cost of delivering high priority traffic flows. The pricing agent assigns prices dy-
namically for each traffic flow accepted by the domain manager. Combining the pricing strategy with
the QoS manager allows only higher priority traffic packets that are willing to pay more to be processed
during congestion. This approach is flexible and scalable as end-to-end pricing is decoupled from packet
forwarding and resource reservation decisions. Simulations show that additional revenue is generated
as prices change dynamically according to the network congestion status.
Chapter 15
Providing Quality of Service across Multiple Providers: The Case of European Research
and Academic Space ........................................................................................................................... 280
Christos Bouras, University of Patras, Greece
Apostolos Gkamas, University of Patras, Greece
Kostas Stamos, University of Patras, Greece
In this chapter, the authors present some of the latest developments related to the provisioning of Quality
of Service (QoS) in today’s networks and the associated network management structures that are or will
be deployed to support them. They first give a brief overview of the most important Quality of Service
proposals in the areas of Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) QoS provisioning in backbone networks, and
we discuss the network management structures and brokers that have been proposed in order to imple-
ment these services. As a case study, they describe the pan-european research and academic network,
which is supported centrally by GEANT and which encompasses multiple independent NRENs (Na-
tional Research and Education Networks). In the last few years, GEANT has developed and deployed
a number of production and pilot services meant for the delivery of quality network services to the end
users across Europe.
Chapter 16
QoS Guaranteed Based Network Management Policies in the Integration of Wired
and Wireless Architecture of a Healthcare Network ........................................................................... 297
Pattarasinee Bhattarakosol, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Watcharaporn Tanchotsrinon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Every community in the world expects to have a high value of life. Therefore, budgets are pooling
to the local healthcare unit to increase healthcare and medical services to their citizen. One common
implementation in the healthcare system is a healthcare network, where all necessary information are
transferred to safe patients’ lives. Various developments in medical equipments integrate communica-
tion circuit to enhance ability to transmit data direct from patients to medical staffs so that their lives
can be safe in time. Since the implementation of wireless network is widely spread, this paper proposes
the integration of the wireless network and wired network to serve a healthcare system under a manage-
ment policy. The results have shown that the proposed architecture with policy has a better quality of
services than another alternative solution using QoS standard metrics. Thus, the chapter ensures that a
qualified healthcare network can be achieved under the condition that the suitable architecture must be
implemented and the right management policies are also applied.
Chapter 17
QoS Signaling Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ........................................................................ 322
Ohm Sornil, National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand
A quality of service (QoS) signaling system is necessary for QoS provision in a mobile ad hoc network
(MANET). A QoS signaling system in MANETs is vulnerable to various types of attacks, ranging from
fabrication and modification of messages to denial of services, which can cause failures of QoS provi-
sions. Security is thus a critical issue for a signaling system. However, distinctive characteristics of
MANETs make security mechanisms effective in conventional networks inapplicable in this environ-
ment. This chapter describes issues and challenges, and examines mechanisms specifically designed to
provide security for a QoS signaling system in MANETs.
Compilation of References ............................................................................................................... 333
About the Contributors .................................................................................................................... 365
Index ................................................................................................................................................... 374
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Foreword
This book edited by Prof. Pattarasinee Bhattarakosol, “Intelligent Quality of Service Technologies and
Network Management: Models for Enhancing Communication”, is an excellent reference for QoS ad-
ministrators, developers, graduate students, research workers, or anyone who needs to understand QoS
technology and network management. This book is comprehensive in its coverage of QoS technologies
and network management, providing enough theories, models and practical examples in each chapter.
Each chapter in this book is independent of each other. Nevertheless, there is a common theme
through all chapters. QoS and network management are the link that holds all chapters. Also, this book
deals with various QoS subjects very thoroughly and considers many aspects even though it discusses
QoS technologies and network management at large.
This book covers a diversity of QoS research fields, environment and systems. Especially, as a case
study, research and academic networks, which are supported by GEANT and which encompasses multiple
independent NRENs(National Research and Education Networks) and other international and national
R&D networks, are a distinguished example.
The effective bandwidth management and data loss probability allow us to guarantee the QoS pa-
rameters required by the traffic flows. This book includes estimation concepts and approaches based on
network traffic modeling.
The network of today requires a flexible and a scalable QoS management mechanism in order to
handle traffic flows throughout multiple domains, like IPv6 domain, mobile domain and private domain.
The manager in charge of QoS management communicates with other domains managers to ensure
that traffic flows are guaranteed. This book introduces the mechanism of QoS manager to process and
reserve QoS inside a domain.
The optimization of network carrier and traffic flow using routing decision system presented in this
book enables dynamic admission control to admit user flows into the network. Also, it creates a man-
agement environment in which it is easy to deploy network policies that benefit both network carrier
and user traffic flows.
In addition, this book involves principal QoS issues with relation to heterogeneous networks, pricing
scheme, various routing methods, traffic modeling, QoS case studies, intra/inter domain management,
and so forth. Also, although a reader is not a well-informed person, they can get the point because this
book describes primary issues clearly and concisely.
To sum up, “Intelligent Quality of Service Technologies and Network Management: Models for
Enhancing Communication” will put the reader inside QoS technologies and network management us-
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ing diverse ideas and approaches in each high quality chapter. Experts who have interests in QoS and
Network Management will find this book very helpful.
Sunyoung Han
June 2009
Seoul, Korea
Sunyoung Han is the Dean and Professor at College of Information & Telecommunications, Konkuk University, Hwayangdong
Kwangjinku, Seoul, Korea. He is a specialist in the area of computer network and has many publications related to Internet,
Mobile IP, Multicasting, Wireless/Mobile Networks, Future Internet, Distributed Systems, including Web Services.
