Author(s):
Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Henning Schulzrinne, Attila Bader, Cornelia Kappler, Georgios Karagiannis, Hannes Tschofenig, and Sven Van den Bosch

pages 133-141, IEEE, October 2005

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Abstract:
In the last few years, a number of applications have emerged that can benefit from network-layer signaling, i.e., the installation, maintenance and removal of control state in network elements. These applications include path-coupled and path-decoupled quality of service (QoS) management and resource allocation, as well as network debugging, NAT and firewall control. These applications call for an extensible and securable signaling protocol. This paper discusses some of the recent standardization efforts in the IETF for a new extensible IP signaling protocol suite (NSIS). We describe the design of the NSIS protocol suite, and compare them with RSVP, the current Internet QoS signaling protocol.

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