A novel pricing-based end to end QoS control and management architecture

Abstract

The fast development of communication technologies brings a heterogeneous network environment, which makes it more complicated to guarantee end to end quality of service (QoS). As a result, an open QoS control and management framework is crucial for the service providers. In this paper, we propose a novel pricing-based end to end QoS control and management architecture, with some key functional blocks presented. Moreover, under the guide of such architecture, the framework of our NS2 simulation platform is given, which can be used to verify our new methods of end to end QoS provision.