Integrated quality of service and network management

Abstract

Today, there are a large number of bandwidth-hungry applications which cause congestion and delay in networks. Delivery delays adversely affect critical applications especially those with real time requirements, e.g. video-conferencing. Hence, more effective quality of service (QoS) and network performance monitoring is required in order to quickly identify and locate performance bottlenecks. An integrated remote monitoring application that monitors both QoS and network performance has been developed. This application is based on the IETF Real Time Flow Monitoring Architecture (RTFM).