Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Euromicro Conference, 2002. Proceedings. 28th
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1787-0
DOI :
10.1109/EURMIC.2002.1046161
