The internet is used for wide variety of applications in wired, fixed wireless and mobile wireless environment. The requirements of one application / environment will vary from another application / environment. The challenge for the service provider is Quality of Service (QoS). The wired network has less complexity compared to fixed wireless network with respect to QoS. Certainly, the challeng...

The current Internet does not impose fundamental differences between hosts and routers in terms of accessibility, and does not recognize the fundamentally different roles played by providers and customers. Customer and provider networks share the same address and routing space, and any customer host can access a router in a provider network. To address the serious challenges in scalability, sta...

Managing services on the Internet is becoming more and more complex and time consuming for service providers since services are increasing both in number and complexity. Also the number of users per service is going up. A solution to this problem is to allow the service users themselves to partly manage the services they are using. This is called Customer Service Management, and it will both in...

Spam over Internet Telephony as the distribution of unwanted voice messages over Voice over Internet Protocol networks is an upcoming threat. It is harder to prevent than e-mail spam since its content is not available before the victim is annoyed. This is even more difficult if the spam is sent directly to the victim’s user equipment, bypassing the proxies of the service provider. Hence, this m...

In recent years, business on the Internet has exponentially increased. Consequently, the deployment and management of business applications on the Internet is becoming more and more complex, which requires the development of new Internet architectures suitable to efficiently run these business applications. In this paper, we present a new, revolutionary ASP (Application Service Provider) approa...

Pricing new services is a mostly trial and error process, and wireless Internet access is no exception. Additionally, judging by recent publication, wireless Internet pricing and consumer willingness to pay (WTP) is the subject of much interest. In particular, Maier (2002) indicates wireless Internet provider expectations have not been met by realized market demand. Maier further argues that th...

This document describes the experiences of Comcast, a large cable broadband Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the U.S., in a Proactive Network Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) technical trial in July 2008. This trial used P4P iTracker technology, which is being considered by the IETF as part of the Application Layer Transport Optimization (ALTO) working group.

Today’s Internet represents a multi-provider environment as a basis for global service delivery with a set of services, business roles, and strategies. The integration of data and telecommunication, especially for multimedia services, requires Quality-of-Service (QoS) for the transport of data. Furthermore, it demands a value-added Internet with communication and network services as well as cha...

The Internet is one of the most successful technologies in last century. Within less than four decades (starting from the first packet-switched computer network, ARPAnet), it has evolved into an extremely popular commercial infrastructure, and has a significant impact on almost all aspects of our lives and our society. With the dramatic advances in multimedia technologies and the increasing pop...

PROVIDING basic Internet services is not difficult. All a provider needs is a link to another Internet service provider to become a member of the “network of networks”. However, making profit in this business has become very hard, due to the continually evolving array of Internet services that are demanded by users and offered by companies. New services like Internet Telephony or Media Streamin...