CONTENTS

 1     Scope        
 2     References             
 3     Terms and definitions         
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms           
 5     Problem statement and consideration of approaches            
        5.1     Static approaches     
        5.2     Pseudo-static approach          
        5.3     Signalled approaches
        5.4     Impairment accumulation approach  
 6     Advantages and disadvantages of the approaches considered            
 7     Summary of approaches according to the problem statement challenges      
Appendix I – Detailed example of a static divisor approach    
Appendix II – Detailed example of the static reference allocation approach    
Appendix III – Detailed example of impairment accumulation approach    
Appendix IV – Performance guidance for providers    
       IV.1     Qualitative guidance statements        
       IV.2     Circumstances when guidance is useful          
Appendix V – Additional consideration
s for achieving end-to-end performance objectives in an NGN environment    
        V.1     Introduction 
        V.2     Requirements for end-to-end QoS class          
        V.3     End-to-end QoS performance objectives and multi-domain network    
        V.4     Technologies used at carrier segment            
        V.5     Interface of QoS class and terminal equipment           
        V.6     Interface of QoS class and enterprise networks           
Bibliography