Written to identify IP based network and service issues and the challenges facing its growth, as well as to assist the research and development community to prioritize their work in order to solve the problems facing the industry.

IP has a major role in the evolution of networks and services. Issues relating to end-to-end network and service management which offers advanced services, are addressed in this book; making it a defining work on this topic.

Contributors.Introduction.1 Current Practice and Evolution (Salah Aidarous).1.1 Introduction.1.2 Evolution of Network Architecture.1.3 Technology Breakthrough.1.4 IP Management Challenges.1.5 IP/PSTN Integration.1.7 Summary.2 eCommerce (Paul Levine).2.1 Introduction.2.2 eCommerce Requirements.2.3 Open-edi.2.4 Business Operational View.2.5 Semantics (Data Definition Standards).2.6 Shared Semantics for Interoperability (Data Exchange Standards).2.7 Summary.3 Quality of Service in IP Networks (Joberto Sergio Barbosa Martins).Introduction.3.1 IP Context and Quality of Service.3.2 Quality of Service.3.3 Quality of Service: Approaches and Initiatives for IP Networks.3.4 Packet Conditioning, Queue Scheduling, and Congestion Control in Routers.3.5 Integrated Services Architecture.3.6 Differentiated Services Architecture.3.7 Multiprotocol Label Switching.3.8 Summary.4 A Survey of Charging Internet Services (Burkhard Stiller).4.1 Introduction.4.2 Motivation and Terminology.4.3 Related Work.4.4 Internet Services and Technology Choices.4.5 Pricing Models.4.6 ISP Cost Models.4.7 Charging Support Systems.4.8 Business Model Aspects.4.9 Summary and Conclusions.5 IP Security (Mostafa Hashem Sherif).5.1 Introduction.5.2 Security of Telecommunications Services.5.3 Security Objectives.5.4 OSI Model for Cryptographic Security.5.5 Message Confidentiality.5.6 Data Integrity.5.7 Identification of Participants.5.8 Authentication of Participants.5.9 Access Control.5.10 Nonrepudiation.5.11 Secure Management of Cryptographic Keys.5.12 Exchange of Secret Keys: Kerberos.5.13 Exchange of Public Keys.5.14 Certificate Management.5.15 Applications for Network Management.5.16 Encryption Cracks.5.17 Summary.Appendix I: Areas Related to Security Policies.Appendix II: Principles of Symmetric Encryption.Appendix III: Principles of Public Key Encryption.Appendix IV: Principles of the Digital Signature Algorithm.6 The Future Optical Internet: Integration of Optical and IP Technologies (Andrea Fumagalli, Javier Aracil, and Luca Valcarenghi).6.1 Introduction.6.2 Optical Network Technologies.6.3 Protocol Architectures, Signaling and Framing Techniques for the Optical Internet.6.4 Traffic Engineering in the Optical Internet.6.5 Open Challenges.Acronyms.Index.