Quality of Future Internet Services COST Action 263 Final Report
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Michael Smirnov Ernst Biersack Chris Blondia Olivier Bonaventure Olga Casals Gunnar Karlsson George Pavlou Bruno Quoitin James Roberts Ioannis Stavrakakis Burkhard Stiller Panos Trimintzios Piet Van Mieghem (Eds.)
Quality of Future Internet Services COST Action 263 Final Report
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Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Volume Editor Michael Smirnov Fraunhofer FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31, 10589 Berlin Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): C.2, H.4, H.3, H.5, D.2, K.6 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-20193-9 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Boller Mediendesign Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10958421 06/3142 543210
Preface
This state-of-the-art survey of technologies, algorithms, models, and experiments in the area of Internet Quality of Service is the final report of COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action 263, Quality of future Internet Services, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/cost263 (QofIS). COST 263 ran from January 1999 until October 2003 with the participation of some 70 researchers from 38 organizations from 14 European countries (France, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, UK, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Finland, Greece, Romania, and Spain). The Action belonged to the COST area “Multimedia and Internet Communication”; together with COST 264, Networked Group Communication, this Action continued the effort started in 1992 by COST 237, Multimedia Telecommunications Services. Both groups have combined their efforts now in the Network of Excellence in Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies, http://www.ist-e-next.net (E-NEXT) of the 6th European Framework program. The book consists of seven chapters that were written in 18 month
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