Abstract:
This paper proposes to integrate security parameters
into the Service Level Specification (SLS). Integrating
those parameters in the QoS part of the Service Level
Agreement (SLA) specification is essential in particular
for secure multimedia services since the QoS is
negotiated when the multimedia service is deployed.
Security mechanisms need to be negotiated at that time
when sensible multimedia information is exchanged. In
this paper we show that including security parameters in
the SLA specification improves the negotiation,
deployment and use of the secure multimedia service. The
parameters this paper proposes to integrate have the
advantage to be understandable by both the end-users
and service providers.
