Managing Service Level Quality Across Wireless and Fixed Networks

ISBN-13: 9780470848487 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 184 str.

Peter Massam; Tomi T. Ahonen

Opis

QoS (Quality of Service) and Network Management are old topics. However, the fusion of IP style multimedia and wireless networks (3G) means that network managers who might previously have dealt with one or the other, must now manage and provide service guarantees for the both. This is where Managing Service Level Quality across Wireless and Fixed Networks steps in...
It begins by examining the mechanisms that already existed in fixed IP data networks prior to the introduction of probe and agent technology. A look at these later developments is then supplemented with a real-world scenario of how real time application performance monitoring can not only provide service level management but can also aid in root cause analysis.
This same model is then applied to a wireless environment examining which elements are required to be able to deliver multimedia services across 2nd and 3rd generation mobile networks, detailing the components of data networking that will assist in guaranteeing service level performance and the constraints placed on those guarantees when passing services over an air interface to a wireless-enabled device.
It asks a simple question: will multimedia applications and the guaranteed levels of service required by them work when traversing from fixed to wireless networks?
It tracks QoS components and mechanisms of both environments and looks at what will provide the glue in this brave new converged world and also provides empirical data to back up the conclusions drawn.
* First book available which applies QoS techniques and technologies to wireless/mobile networks 3G/UMTS
* Deals with the search for the real time information that constitutes the "customer experience" in terms of application performance so that service levels can be verified against measurable and relevant data in a true end-to-end manner across both fixed and wireless networks
* Presents probe and agent technology
* Features a real-world scenario of how real time application performance monitoring can not only provide service level management but can also aid in root cause analysis - this will be of particular interest to practitioner
* Analyses which elements are required in order to deliver multimedia services across 2nd and 3rd generation mobile networks
* Details the components of data networking that will assist in guaranteeing service level performance
Essential reading for Wireless and IP data network professionals/practitioners, network managers and architects, technical consultants, quality assessment engineers, infrastructure vendors, application developers, portal designers, wireline operators, lecturers, postgraduates, senior undergraduate students and industry trainees.

Spis treści

Introduction.

Managing Service Level Quality in Fixed Networks.

History.

Current Standards.

Latest Developments.

A Model Agent.

An Integrated Model.

Application Performance in a Nutshell.

Service Level Quality across Fixed and Wireless Networks.

Wireless Architectures.

Moving to Wireless.

Wireless Performance.

Conclusions.

References.

Appendices.

Blurb

If you need to know the implications of running multimedia applications when traversing from fixed to wireless networks and the guaranteed levels of service they require, then this is the book for you.....

Managing Service Level Quality across Wireless and Fixed Networks deals with the search for the real time information that constitutes the ′customer experience′ in terms of application performance so that service levels can be verified against measurable and relevant data in a true end–to–end manner across both fixed and wireless networks.

Examining what mechanisms already existed in fixed IP data networks prior to the introduction of probe and agent technology this volume then looks at these later developments using a real–world scenario of how real time application performance monitoring can not only provide service level management but also aid in root cause analysis.

This same model is then applied to a wireless environment, examining what elements are required to be able to deliver multimedia services across 2G and 3G mobile networks, detailing the components of data networking that will assist in guaranteeing service level performance and the constraints placed on those guarantees when passing services over an air interface to a wireless–enabled device.

It tracks QoS components and mechanisms of both fixed and wireless environments and looks at how they will provide the glue in this brave new converged world.

Written for IP professionals from either a wireless or an IP data networking background Managing Service Level Quality across Wireless and Fixed Networks offers innovative sound and practical advice. It will also provide a complete reference guide for academic staff and students with an interest in this area.