Telecommunication Network Intelligence, 1997 IFIP TC6/WG6.7 Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Networks (SmartNet 2000), September 18–22, 2000, Vienna, Austria IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series, Vol. 50

Telecommunication Network Intelligence is a state-of-the-art book that deals with issues related to the development, distribution, and management of intelligent capabilities and services in telecommunication networks.
The book contains recent results of research and development in the following areas, among others:

• Platforms for Advanced Services;
• Active and Programmable Networks;
• Network Security, Intelligence, and Monitoring;
• Quality-of-Service Management;
• Mobile Agents;
• Dynamic Switching and Network Control;
• Services in Wireless Networks;
• Infrastructure for Flexible Services.

Telecommunication Network Intelligence comprises the proceedings of SmartNet 2000, the Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Networks, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, in September 2000.

Internet Service Delivery Control with Mobile Code.- Traffic Considerations for Security Services in VoIP Systems.- An Architecture for Providing Advanced Telecommunication Services.- A Service Platform for Internet-Telecom Services using SIP.- Towards Dynamic Composition of Hybrid Communication Services.- IT-Technology for High Available Solutions in the Telco Environment.- Locating Services in Programmable Networks with AMnet-Signalling.- Open Programmable Layer-3 Networking.- Active Network Management via Agent Technology.- Smoothing Algorithms for DTM Networks.- Efficiency of the Prediction of High Priority Traffic in Enhancing the Rate Based Control of Low Priority Traffic.- Advertised Window-Based TCP Flow Control in Routers.- Dynamic Programming Based Link Cost Function and Load Estimation Method for ATM Links.- A QoS Provisioning Scheme for Multimedia Wireless Networks.- Profile-based IN Service Provision for Third Generation Mobile Communication Networks.- Agents for Support of WAP-based Services.- H3M — A Rapidly Deployable Architecture with QoS Provisioning for Wireless Networks.- Provision of Signalling for Programmable Services.- A Versatile Network Independent Server Architecture for Multimedia Information and Conununication Services.- MobiliTools: An OMG Standards-Based Toolbox for Agent Mobility and Interoperability.- Software Agent Constrained Mobility for Network Performance Monitoring.- Packet Routing with Genetically Programmed Mobile Agents.- A Multi-agents System for Network Security Management.- Policy and Trust in Open Multi-Operator Networks.- Enabling secure e-Commerce on Mobile Phones.- Combining Authentication and Light-Weight Payment for Active Networks.- Quality of Services for ISP Networks.- An Intelligent Network Architecture forInternet-PSTN Service Interworking.- I-centric Services in the Area of Telecommunication ‘The I-Talk Service’.- Centralized Network Intelligence vs. Decentralized Network Intelligence.- A Network Based Replay Portal.- A New Multicast Technique for Video Transmission over ABR Services in ATM Networks.- Flexible COM-based Software Solution for HFC Network Performance Monitoring.- Statistics Warehouse for Intelligent Networks.- Service Interoperability through Advanced Media Gateways.- Web Enabled Telecommunication Service Control Using VoxML.- Author index.- Keyword index.

Harmen R. van As is full-professor at the Vienna University of Technology and head of the Institute of Communication Networks established in 1996. He has served in technical and organizing committees of many international conferences, and chairs the IFIP Working Group 6.10 on Photonic Networking.