Integrating Security with QoS in Next Generation Networks

Along with recent Internet security threats, different security measures have emerged. Whilst these security schemes ensure a level of protection against such threats, they sometimes have significant impact on perceived Quality of Service (QoS). There is thus need to retrieve ways for an efficient integration of security requirements with their QoS counterparts. In this paper, we devise a Quality of Protection framework that tunes between security requirements and QoS using a multi-attribute decision making model. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated and verified via a use case study using computer simulations.