ETICS1: QoS-enabled interconnection for Future Internet services
Nicolas Le Sauze, Agostino Chiosi, Richard Douville, Hélia Pouyllau, Håkon Lønsethagen, Paola Fantini, Claudio Palasciano, Antonio Cimmino, María Ángeles Callejo Rodríguez, Olivier Dugeon, Daniel Kofman, Xavier Gadefait, Philippe Cuer, Nicola Ciulli, Gino Carrozzo, Soppera, Andrea, Briscoe, Bob, Bornstaedt, Falk, Andreou, Marina, Stamoulis, George · 2010
Abstract: To sustain inter-carrier QoS assurance needed by future applications, the Internet has to evolve along two main axes: i) the study, design and implementation of new business models to foster investments, and ii) the introduction of new archi-tectures and protocols to overcome current technical impediments. This paper pre-sents the vision of the FP7 project ETICS (Economics and Technologies for Inter-Carrier Services) which aims at reshaping the current ecosystem and designing a new framework, thus contributing coherently to both axes. ETICS addresses issues at dif-ferent levels of network control/management: on the top, enhanced Operational Sup-port 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 assurance.