Premium IP: on the road to ambient networking

This panel will contribute to the understanding of the role of QoS in networking; specifically what are emerging topics in Premium IP networking. This topic relates closely to the vision of Ambient Networking as a research area that links network interoperability with reconfiguration capabilities to meet challenges such as mobility, QoS, multi-homing, and multimedia. Premium IP networking is currently in its infancy, and applications that can exploit Premium IP features are rare today. In order to bring the excellent initial achievements of Europe towards full-scale Premium IP deployment, a concerted effort is needed by key participants to develop, validate and demonstrate on a large scale improved features for the provision of enhanced IP communications services.