Quality of service in B-ISDN and relation with network management

A quality of service (QOS) framework for broadband integrated services digital networks (ISDN) is presented. The framework contains network performance (NP), parameters, QOS parameters and a QOS architecture. The NP parameters characterizing an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network are reviewed. The QOS parameters are obtained from the user´s service requirements and a QOS time-line model. The QOS architecture in the open systems interconnection (OSI) reference model are defined with respect to the network management (NM) framework. The QOS framework covers the NM framework and acts an an application of the NM, which is based on the intercommunication between the service user, service provider, and network provider