ETICS: QoS-enabled interconnection for Future Internet services

Nicolas Le Sauze (1) , Agostino Chiosi (1) , Richard Douville (1) , Hélia Pouyllau (1) , Häkon Lonsethagen (2) , Paola Fantini (3) , Claudio Palasciano (3) , Antonio Cimmino (3) , Maria Angeles Callejo Rodriguez (4) , Olivier Dugeon (5) , Daniel Kofman (6) , Xavier Gadefait (7) , Philippe Cuer (7) , Nicola Ciulli (8) , Gino Carrozzo (8) , Andrea Soppera (9) , Bob Briscoe (9) , Falk Bornstaedt (10) , Marina Andreou (11) , George Stamoulis (3) , Costas Courcoubetis (3) , Peter Reichl (12) , Ivan Gojmerac (12) , Jean Louis Rougier (3) , Sandrine Vaton (13) , Dominique Barth (3) , Ariel Orda (3)

1 Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France [Nozay]
2 Telenor
3 Alcatel-Lucent Italy
4 Telefonica I+D - Telefonica Investigación+Desarrolló
5 Orange Labs [Lannion]
6 RAD - RAD Data Communications
7 Marben - Marben Products
8 NeXtworks - NeXtworks SRL [Pisa]
9 BT - British Telecom
10 Deutsche Telekom
11 Primetel - Primetel
12 FTW - Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
13 INFO - Département informatique

To sustain inter-carrier QoS guarantees demanded by future application usages the current Internet has to evolve along two main axes: i) the study, design and implementation of new business models to foster network investments, and ii) the proposal of new architectures and protocols to surmount technical impediments. In the FP7 project ETICS (Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services) an ecosystem is designed to contribute coherently and effectively to both axes by addressing issues at different levels of network control/management: at a higher level, enhanced Operational Support Systems (OSSs) of network providers will interact to negotiate and commit QoS agreements; at an intermediate level, Network Management Systems (NMSs) will be strengthened to support complex configuration policing; at the control plane level, protocols will be augmented with new features allowing soft or strict QoS guarantees.

Nicolas Le Sauze, Agostino Chiosi, Richard Douville, Hélia Pouyllau, Häkon Lonsethagen, et al.. ETICS: QoS-enabled interconnection for Future Internet services. Future Network and Mobile Summit, Jun 2010, Florence, Italie. ⟨hal-00836641⟩