Title:
              Architectures for providing QoS on the Internet

                               Speaker:
                              Cheryl Pope
                Dept. of Computer Science, University of Adelaide


                               ABSTRACT
The Internet protocols were originally designed around a relatively
unreliable and slow network infrastructure.  The applications that
could be meaningfully run on such a network were limited.  As the
infrastructure has become more reliable and faster, the demand for
latency sensitive applications (e.g. video, voice, interactive games) is
increasing.  However, there still is currently no (or very limited)
support within the Internet architecture for such applications.  One
of the current goals of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) is to provide an extension to the Internet architecture that
can give Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to such network traffic.

This talk will discuss the current architecture proposed by the IETF for
providing end-to-end QoS to applications, the areas that still
need further work and open research issues.