Martin Karsten - Böcker

This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains the set of papers accepted for the two co-located NGC/ICQT2003 workshops, i.e., the 5th COST 264 International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC) and the 3rd - ternationalWorkshopon InternetChargingandQoSTechnology(ICQT),bothof which took place at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBwM), Germany and were hosted by the Information and Systems Laboratory, IIS. NGC2003wasthe ?fth workshopin a continuingseriesof highlysuccessfultech- cal meetings on group communications within the framework of the COST Action 264 "Networked Group Communications," following previous events in Pisa, Italy, 1999, Stamford, USA, 2000, London, UK, 2001, and Boston, USA, 2002. ICQT2003 was the latest edition of a vivid workshop on Internet economics and charging technology; previous events took place in the framework of the Annual Meeting of the German - ciety for Computer Science (GI) and the Austrian Computer Society in 2001 in Vienna, Austria, and in Zuri .. ch, Switzerland in 2002, co-located with the QofIS2002 workshop.

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the Third COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services, QofIS 2002 and the Second International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2002, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in October 2002. The 30 revised full papers presented together with an invited keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on end-to-end QoS, DiffServ traffic management, traffic marking and queueing, signaling and routing, multi-path routing, service differentiation and QoS control, congestion control and MPLS, charging technologies, pricing models, and economic models and security.