A new policy-aware terminal

Abstract

Policy-based Management has been largely studied during the last years. TheInternet Engineering Task force (IETF) has more recently introduced the Policy Based Networking as a mean for managing the IP networks according to the new constraints defined in the network such as the guarantee of the Quality of service (QoS). The network managed based on policies, is modelIed as astate machine which moves from astate to another according to the enforced policy. The IETF policy based networking is defined to be applied to the network nodes. However, some recent works suggests extending the policy based networking to the end user terminals. In this paper, we present an analysis of such an extension and we propose some possible solutions to support new policy-aware terminals and a corresponding end-to-end QoS extended provisioning and outsourcing frameworks.