Getting what you paid for: quality of service and wireless connection to the internet

Andrew H. Kemp

International Journal of Information Management, 2005, vol. 25, issue 2, 107-115

Abstract: ‘Quality of service’ (QoS) has risen in importance for controlling and measuring the transfer of information over communications networks as they have migrated from individual-links to interconnected-networks (and indeed to the Internet itself). Charging for services contributes to the requirement for prescribed levels of quality. Two different basic paradigms for communications networks are used, circuit-switched and packets-switched. The difference between these two have a significant impact on performance and hence on QoS issues. The Internet uses packet-switched and different QoS solutions have been standardised, IntServ and DiffServ. The mobile communications sector currently uses circuit-switching but is migrating to a packet-switched basis. This paper briefly reviews these developments and looks at possible future developments.

Keywords: QoS; DiffServ; IntServ; Multimedia data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2004.10.011

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