Delivering guaranteed quality of service over IP networks

互联网的下一次革命将是提供端到端的服务质量（QoS）保证，其形式包括最大延迟、延迟变化和数据包丢失概率，或最小吞吐量。目前还没有能够提供端到端QoS保证的技术。这个项目将开发基于信用的控制，而不是通常的基于速率的控制，它可以提供这些所需的QoS保证。这些QoS保证将支持在Internet上开发和部署全新的服务。这个项目将给澳大利亚工业界创造下一代互联网的机会。因此，该项目代表了一项前沿技术。

The next revolution in the Internet will be to offer end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, in the form of maximum delay, delay variation and probability of packet loss, or minimum throughput. There are no existing techniques capable of delivering end-to-end QoS guarantees. This project will develop credit-based controls, instead of the usual rate-based controls, that can deliver these required QoS guarantees. These QoS guarantees will enable the development and deployment of entirely new services on the Internet. This project will give Australian industry the opportunity to create the next generation Internet. Therefore this project represents a Frontier Technology.