An Approach for Integrated Management of Networks with Quality of Service Support Using QAME

Providing QoS-guaranteed services in current installed networks is an important issue, but only deploying QoS services is not enough to guarantee their success: QoS management must also be provided. Nowadays, police-based network management (PBNM) addresses this need, but such management is not enough either. Network managers deal with QoS tasks that cannot be performed using only PBNM. Other solutions, besides PBNM, have to be used to proceed with QoS management-related tasks. Unfortunately, these solutions are independent from each other, leading to a scenario where integration is difficult. This paper introduces QAME (QoS-Aware Management Environment) which main goal is the provisioning of facilities to allow a common and integrated Web-based management of QoS-enabled networks.