Telecommunication Network Intelligence: IFIP TC6/WG6.7 Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Networks (SmartNet 2000), September 18–22, 2000, Vienna, Austria

614 Pages·2000·27.037 MB·English

by  Manuel Günter, Torsten Braun (auth.), Harmen R. van As (eds.)

TELECOMMUNICATION
NETWORK
INTELLIGENCE
IFlP TC6jWG6.7 Sixth International Conference
on Intelligence in Networks (SmartNet 2000),
September 18-22, 2000, Vienna, Austria
Edited by
Harmen R. van As
Institute of Communication Networks
Vienna University of Technology
Austria
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
ISBN 978-1-4757-6693-6 ISBN 978-0-387-35522-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-35522-1
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TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK
INTELLIGENCE
IFIP -The International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the First World
Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. An umbrella organization for societies
working in information processing, IFIP's aim is two-fold: to support information
processing within its member countries and to encourage technology transfer to developing
nations. As its mission statement clearly states,
IFIP's mission is to be the leading, truly international, apolitical organization which
encourages and assists in the development, exploitation and application of information
technology for the benefit of all people.
IFIP is a non-profitmaking organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates
through a number of technical committees, which organize events and publications. IFIP's
events range from an international congress to local seminars, but the most important are:
• The IFIP World Computer Congress, held every second year;
• open conferences;
• working conferences.
The flagship event is the IFIP World Computer Congress, at which both invited and
contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the
rejection rate is high.
As with the Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may
be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed.
The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working group
and attendance is small and by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere
conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is less rigorous and papers are
subjected to extensive group discussion.
Publications arising from IFIP events vary. The papers presented at the IFIP World
Computer Congress and at open conferences are published as conference proceedings, while
the results of the working conferences are often published as collections of selected and
edited papers.
Any national society whose primary activity is in information may apply to become a full
member of IFIP, although full membership is restricted to one society per country. Full
members are entitled to vote at the annual General Assembly, National societies preferring
a less committed involvement may apply for associate or corresponding membership.
Associate members enjoy the same benefits as full members, but without voting rights.
Corresponding members are not represented in IFIP bodies. Affiliated membership is open
to non-national societies, and individual and honorary membership schemes are also offered.
Contents
Preface ix
Committees xi
Reviewers xii
Part One: QoS and Security Services
Internet Service Delivery Control with Mobile Code 3
Manuel GUnter, Torsten Braun
Traffic Considerations for Security Services in VoIP Systems 21
Wilhelm Wimmreuter
Part Two: Platforms for Advanced Services
An Architecture for Providing Advanced Telecommunication
Services 37
Yann Duponchel, Marcel Graf, Hong Linh Truong
A Service Platform for Internet-Telecom Services using SIP S9
Sandford Bessler, Agop-V art Nisanyan, Karl Peterbauer, Rudolf Pailer,
Johannes Stadler
Towards Dynamic Composition of Hybrid Communication
Services 73
Jacqueline Floch, Rolv Brrek
IT-Technology for High Available Solutions in the Telco
Environment 93
Konrad Wiesneth, Stefan Arntzen
Part Three: Active and Programmable Networks
Locating Services in Programmable Networks with
AMnet-Signalling 111
Anke Speer, Ralph Wittmann, Martina Zitterbart
Open Programmable Layer-3 Networking 133
Koji Hino, Takasbi Egawa, Y osbiaki Kiriha
vi
Active Network Management via Agent Technology 151
Yasin Kaplankiran, Alexander Keiblinger, Hermann Tabben
Part Four: Dynamic Switching and Network Control
Smoothing Algorithms for DTM Networks 163
Csaba Antal, Sandor Molnar
Efficiency of the Prediction of High Priority Traffic in
Enhancing the Rate Based Control of Low Priority Traffic 181
Kimmo Pulakka, Janno Harju
Advertised Window-Based TCP Flow Control in Routers 197
Octavian Pop, Istvan Moldovan, Csaba Simon, J6zsef Bir6, Arata Koike,
Hiroshi Ishii
Dynamic Programming Based Link Cost Function and Load
Estimation Method for ATM Links 219
Marco Conte
Part Five: Services in Wireless Networks
A QoS Provisioning Scheme for Multimedia Wireless Networks 237
Mona EI-Kadi, Stephan Olarlu, Hussein Abdel-Wahab
ProfIle-based IN Service Provision for Third Generation Mobile
Communication Networks 253
Hoang Nguyen-Minh, Hannen R. van As
Agents for Support of W AP-based Services 267
Mihhail Matskin, Runar Bell
H3M - A Rapidly Deployable Architecture with QoS
Provisioning for Wireless Networks 283
Edwin C. Foudriat, Kurt Maly, Stephan Olarlu
Part Six: Infrastructure for Flexible Services
Provision of Signalling for Programmable Services 307
Mark Banfield, Steven Simpson, David Hutchison
vii
A Versatile Network Independent Server Architecture for
Multimedia Information and Communication Services 331
Wolfgang Kellerer
Part Seven: Mobile Agents
MobiliTools: An OMG Standards-Based Toolbox for Agent
Mobility and Interoperability 353
Bruno Dillenseger
Software Agent Constrained Mobility for Network Performance
Monitoring 367
Christos Bohoris, Antonio Liotta, George Pavlou
Packet Routing with Genetically Programmed Mobile Agents 389
Jon Schuringa, GUnter Remsak
Part Eight: Network Security
A Multi-agents System for Network Security Management 407
Karima Boudaoud, Zahia Guessoum
Policy and Trust in Open Multi-Operator Networks 419
Pekka Nikander, Lasse Metso
Enabling secure e-Commerce on Mobile Phones 437
Do van Thanh, Jan A. Audestad
Combining Authentication and Light-Weight Payment for
Active Networks 453
RUdiger Weis, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Stefan Lucks
Part Nine: Network Intelligence
Quality of Services for ISP Networks 471
Qi Guan
An Intelligent Network Architecture for Internet-PSTN
Service Interworking 485
Menelaos K. Perdikeas, Iakovos S. Venieris
viii
I·centric Services in the Area of Telecommunication
'The I·Talk Service' 499
Stefan Arbanowski, Sven van der Meer, Radu Popescu-Zeletin
Centralized Network Intelligence vs. Decentralized
Network Intelligence 509
Josef Ferchenbauer
Part Ten: Video Broadcasting over Packet-Networks
A Network Based Replay Portal 521
Jakobus E. van der Merwe, Cormac 1. Sreenan, Austin N. Donnelly, Andrea
Basso, Charles R. Kalmanek
A New Multicast Technique for Video Transmission over
ABR Services in ATM Networks 541
Santiago Felici, Andres Lopez-Penaranda, Juan Perez, Jorge Martinez
Part Eleven: Network Monitoring
Flexible COM·based Software Solution for IIFC Network
Performance Monitoring 555
Hung Nguyen Chan, Judith Redoli Granados, Rafael Mompo Gomez,
Belen Carro Martinez
Statistics Warehouse for Intelligent Networks 569
Johann Schabauer, Hans Portschy, Rudolf Siebenhofer, Andrea Holzinger
Part Twelve: Advanced Network Services
Service Interoperability through Advanced Media Gateways 583
Sven van der Meer, Stefan Arbanowski
Web Enabled Telecommunication Service Control
UsingVoxML 597
Bilel Guedhami, Cornel Klein, Wolfgang Kellerer
Author index 623
Keyword index 625
Preface
SmartNet'2000 is the sixth in a series of conferences on Intelligence in
Networks started by IFIP TC-6 Working Group 6.2 (Broadband
Communications), the events being a preceding Workshop on IN,
Lappeenranta (August 1994), the Working Conference on IN, Copenhagen
(August 1995), the Workshop on Broadband Network Intelligence
(WBNI'96), Espoo (November 1996), and the Conference on Intelligent
Networks and Network Intelligence (2IN97), Paris, (September 1997). The
series now belongs to the area of Working Group 6.7 (Smart Networks) with
previous conferences held in Moscow (Smartnet'98, February 1999,
postponed from 1998) and Bangkok (Smartnet' 99, November 1999). The
conference series has been established to be a forum for discussion of issues
related to the development of intelligent capabilities in telecommunication
networks. These topics generally include the creation, distribution, and
management of telecommunication services in narrowband networks,
broadband networks as well as mobile networks.
In the world of telecommunications, the ultimate goal is to provide
network customers with a variety of versatile services. Today flexibility is a
key design issue for emerging network architectures and service platforms in
order to be able to adapt instantly to changing customer service demands. In
contrast to the traditional way of implementing intelligent network services
in centralized service nodes which control the switching nodes of the
transport network using a dedicated signaling network, the current trends are
towards implementing distributed network intelligence, eventually supported
by mobile software agents and active networks. The basic idea of these last
two directions is the movement of service code directly to network switching
nodes and network control nodes as well as between all kind of applications
in the end systems. In addition, this service code movement should be
possible in a highly dynamic manner, thus allowing automated, flexible, and
customized provision of services in a highly distributed manner. This would
enable better service performance as well as optimized control and
management of the transport network capabilities.
Two enabling technologies are crucial in open, active and programmable
networks: programmable network nodes providing flexibility in the design of
connectivity control applications, and platforms for mobile software agents
allowing dynamic downloading and movement of service code to specific
network nodes. The intelligence inside the service agents permits distributed
configuration and provision of service intelligence inside the network,
x
thereby relaxing the load of service control and management systems as well
as that of the signaling traffic.
Research in networking and flexible service platforms is exploring ways
in which network nodes and end systems may be dynamically programmed
by network operators, their customers, and third parties. The advantages of
customized routing and communication protocols, dynamic allocation and
reallocation of resources among service classes, flow-specific information
processing in network nodes, and fast and adaptive service creation are
extremely attractive, but the basic conditions of security, reliability, and
performance still require considerable efforts.
The proceedings of SmartNet'2000 reflect research activities all around
the world for achieving these goals. The discussed topics in the conference
are on telecommunication service architectures, flexible service creation,
service distribution and management, security services, advanced
intelligence in networks, application of agent technology for routing and
network control, performance monitoring, network management, QoS
management, mobility management, interactive multimedia as well as
dynamic switching and active networks.
Many persons have contributed to make this conference a success. I
would like to thank the members of the organizing and technical committees,
the authors and reviewers, the Vienna University of Technology, the
sponsors of the conference, and the staff of the Institute of Communication
Networks. Particular thanks are due to Johanna Pfeifer of my institute and
Dr. Reda Reda of Siemens Austria for their very successful and highly
appreciated organizational support.
Harmen R. van As Conference Chair Vienna, September 2000