Management system for quality of service in home network
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsKwangil Lee, Jun Hee Park, Kyeong Deok Moon
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Abstract
There is provided a QoS (quality of service) management system in a home network. When a QoS service is provided in the home network consisting of hosts and bridges, a user provides a user identifier and authentication information and the QoS management system verifies the user identifier and authentication information when managing a user policy and providing a service, to provide a consistent and stable policy within the home network, to prevent a collision among different policies, and to prevent the home network resources from being used by an illegal user.
Claims11
A QoS (quality of service) management system in a home network comprising:
- a user control unit allowing a user to provide a user identifier and an authentication code and to select and request an available service of the home network;
- a QoS management unit requesting resource allocation for a QoS service to a specific home network device, at the request for the service, after authentication using the user identifier and the authentication code;
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- a device control unit comparing a policy being set in the home network with a policy for the selected service, at the request for the resource allocation, verifying propriety as a result of comparison, and then providing the QoS service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.