End-to-end quality of service provisioning through inter-provider traffic engineering

Computer Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 683-702

  Howarth, Michael P ^a   Boucadair, Mohamed ^b   Flegkas, Paris ^a   Wang, Ning ^a   Pavlou, George ^a   Morand, Pierrick ^b   Coadic, Thibaut ^b   Griffin, David ^c   Asgari, Abolghasem ^d   Georgatsos, Panos ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^e Algonet SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

BGP; Inter domain; QoS; Service level specification; SLS; Traffic engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

BGP; INTER-DOMAIN; SERVICE LEVEL SPECIFICATION; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 33644912870     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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