Mapping application QoS to network configurations for MPLS networks

The need to provide differentiated levels of service for e-commerce and other applications over the Internet has led to the advent of network technologies such as MPLS and Diffserv which allow us to shape traffic over a given network. However, translating the needs of an application in terms of network resources to specific network configurations still remains difficult and the task is accomplished mostly in a manual way. This is not scalable when there are many applications demanding different QoS levels of the network and these needs are changing dynamically. Our effort is focused on algorithms that can automate the translation of application needs to network configurations in MPLS networks.