Customer choice in a multi-service residential access network environment

Author

Scharf, Eric ; Hamer, Peter ; Smparounis, Konstantinos ; Payer, Wolfgang ; Ronan, John ; Crotty, Micheal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

221

Abstract

TORRENT is an EU-Supported Framework 5 project that is showing how intelligent control and negotiation capabilities can be built into access networks so as to give the residential customer the ability to choose among a variety of service offerings, in order to achieve an optimal combination of service parameters. This access should be transparent to the type of the core network being addressed. The realisation of a prototype service for a resource management system based on intelligent agent technology is now underway.

Keywords

intelligent control; multimedia communication; quality of service; software agents; subscriber loops; telecommunication control; EU-Supported Framework 5 project; TORRENT; core network; customer choice; intelligent agent technology; intelligent control; multi-service residential access network; negotiation capabilities; prototype service; resource management system; service offerings; service parameters; Costs; Home automation; Intelligent agent; Intelligent control; Intelligent networks; Manufacturing; Quality of service; Software systems; TV; Telecommunication services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Euromicro Conference, 2002. Proceedings. 28th

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1787-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.2002.1046161

Filename

1046161