COPS-SLS: a service level negotiation protocol for the Internet

Author

Nguyen, Thi Mai Trang ; Boukhatem, Nadia ; Doudane, Yacine Ghamri ; Pujolle, Guy

Volume

40

Issue

5

fYear

2002

fDate

5/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

165

Abstract

The deployment of QoS over the Internet may achieve protocols for the negotiation of service levels, as well as mechanisms for the end-to-end realization of service level agreements. Such general-purpose protocols include Common Open Policy Service (COPS) for policy specification within a domain. This article proposes an extension of the COPS protocol for intra- and interdomain service level negotiation. The proposed protocol is known as COPS-SLS. This allows the configuration of domain policies regarding service levels, and the automatic negotiation of service levels within the domain policies

Keywords

Internet; open systems; quality of service; transport protocols; COPS protocol; COPS-SLS; Common Open Policy Service; IP networks; Internet; QoS; automatic negotiation; domain policies negotiation; general-purpose protocols; inter-domain service level negotiation; intra-domain service level negotiation; policy specification; policy-based networking; service level agreements; service level negotiation protocol; Costs; IP networks; Laser sintering; Multiprotocol label switching; Pricing; Protocols; Quality of service; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.1000230

Filename

1000230