ProNet: A policy network environment

Network and business management convergence is seen as the next step towards harmonizing information technology resource allocation with target business goals. This paper proposes a management platform that starts at the specification of business targets in the form of policies and goes all the way to enforcing them in a next generation Quality of Service aware network. We specified both a policy language and a parser and also implemented procedures for mapping policies into underlying network mechanisms. Furthermore, case studies presented in this paper show performance results of network services controlled by such policies.