Next generation networks : networks and services for the information society : 5th IFIP TC6 international symposium, Internetworking 2000, Bergen, Norway, October 3-6, 2000 : proceedings

Acknowledgements This Volume could not exist without the contributors of its papers. We would like to thank them on behalf of the Symposium organisers, for their support in making this a very successful conference. The editors would also like to thank all reviewers for their help in selecting quality papers. Organising such international events is not easy without the support of sponsors. We would like to thank TELENOR, which was very generous in accepting to host this conference under its Patronage. Our sincere thanks also go to all industrial sponsors and to the members and staff of the European Commission, who provided support of various kinds. In particular we would like to thank Dr. Paulo de Sousa of the European Commission, who helped us integrating the NGN concertation activity into the conference, and Ms. May Krosby of Telenor, who took care of the Secretariat. Last but not least, our sincere thanks to committee members who provided timely help in realising this conference and to our publishers Springer-Verlag for bringing out an excellent volume in time for the conference. The Eurescom Project HINE (Heterogeneous In-House Networking Environment): A Cooperation between Telecom Operators for Advanced Home Networking....Pages 1-11 The Generic Network Model - an ITU Approach for Interoperability....Pages 12-31 SIP for Call Control in the 3G IP-Based UMTS Core Network....Pages 32-38 Integration of IN and Internet: The Balance between Idealism and Current Products Realism....Pages 39-50 IP-Based Convergence of Fixed and Cellular Networks and Services in the Light of Liberalization....Pages 51-64 Development of Internet Services Based on Pure JAVA Technology....Pages 65-71 An Applicability of Transition Mechanisms for IPv6/IPv4 within the Scope of GPRS with an Internet Communication....Pages 72-82 Implementing the Integrated Services QoS Model with IPv6 over ATM Networks....Pages 83-95 Transmission of DVB Service Information via Internet....Pages 96-109 Measurement of the Performance of IP Packets over ATM Environment via Multiprotocol-over-ATM (MPOA)....Pages 110-121 Evaluation of a New Resource Reservation Scheme for MPEG Transmission in Highly Available Real-Time Channels....Pages 122-136 Performance Evaluation of Diffserv Driven HFC System....Pages 137-146 Performance Evaluation of RMTP Using NS & RMTP Integration in Current Networks....Pages 147-159 Active Virtual Private Network Services on Demand....Pages 160-173 Convergence of IP-Based and Optical Transport Networks....Pages 174-185 QoS ad hoc Internetworking: Dynamic Adaptation of Differentiated Services Boundaries....Pages 186-195 An Integrated and Federative Approach to QoS Management in IP Networks....Pages 196-208 An Integrated Fixed/Mobile Network for 3G Services....Pages 209-217 Smart Card-Based Infrastructure for Customer Data Collection and Handling in the IST E-Tailor Project (IST-1999-10549)....Pages 218-229 Provision of QoS for Legacy IP Applications in an ATM-over-HFC Access Network....Pages 230-242 TCP Conformance for Network-Based Control....Pages 243-253 Congestion Control Mechanism for Traffic Engineering within MPLS Networks....Pages 254-263 Software Switch Extensions for Portable Deployment of Traffic Control Algorithms....Pages 264-277 Capacity Management for Internet Traffic....Pages 278-291 Building MPLS VPNs with QoS Routing Capability....Pages 292-301 A Linux Implementation of a Differentiated Services Router....Pages 302-315 Design of a Multi-layer Bandwidth Broker Architecture....Pages 316-325 Seamless and Uninterrupted Interworking of Wireless and Wireline Network Technologies....Pages 326-336 Modelling and Performance Evaluation of a National Scale Switchless Based Network....Pages 337-347 Broadband over Inverse Multiplexed xDSL Modems....Pages 348-356 Global Service Control for Multi-media Networks....Pages 357-365 Applicability of ABR Service to Internet Applications....Pages 366-378 Deploying Advanced IP Services on a Community Network....Pages 379-390 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP TC6 International Symposium INTERWORKING 2000 on Next Generation Networks held in Bergen, Norway in October 2000. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on strategic views on future network architecture and services, Internet everywhere and on every network, preparing for the information society with performing networks, European perspective of next generation networks, quality of service and resource management, traffic management and control, bandwidth broker and IP networks, and selective topics in networks The scenario of people seamlessly being able to control all elements of their heterogeneous home environment remotely via the Internet - like their video, heating, delivery of shopping and so on, is fast becoming reality.