Invited Program -- COPS: Quality of Service vs. Any Service at All -- Beyond Middleware and QoS – Service-Oriented Architectures – Cult or Culture? -- Would Self-organized or Self-managed Networks Lead to Improved QoS? -- Full Papers -- Overlay Networks with Linear Capacity Constraints -- A High-Throughput Overlay Multicast Infrastructure with Network Coding -- On Topological Design of Service Overlay Networks -- On Transport Layer Adaptation in Heterogeneous Wireless Data Networks -- LT-TCP: End-to-End Framework to Improve TCP Performance over Networks with Lossy Channels -- QoS Guarantees in Multimedia CDMA Wireless Systems with Non-precise Network Parameter Estimates -- Analyzing Object Detection Quality Under Probabilistic Coverage in Sensor Networks -- A Self-tuning Fuzzy Control Approach for End-to-End QoS Guarantees in Web Servers -- Calculation of Speech Quality by Aggregating the Impacts of Individual Frame Losses -- Best-Effort Versus Reservations Revisited -- An Advanced QoS Protocol for Real-Time Content over the Internet -- Designing a Predictable Internet Backbone with Valiant Load-Balancing -- Preserving the Independence of Flows in General Topologies Using Turn-Prohibition -- Supporting Differentiated QoS in MPLS Networks -- Avoiding Transient Loops Through Interface-Specific Forwarding -- Analysis of Stochastic Service Guarantees in Communication Networks: A Server Model -- Preemptive Packet-Mode Scheduling to Improve TCP Performance -- Edge-Based Differentiated Services -- Processor Sharing Flows in the Internet -- A Practical Method for the Efficient Resolution of Congestion in an On-path Reduced-State Signalling Environment -- Case Study in Assessing Subjective QoS of a Mobile Multimedia Web Service in a Real Multi-access Network -- WXCP: Explicit Congestion Control for Wireless Multi-hop Networks -- A Non-homogeneous QBD Approach for the Admission and GoS Control in a Multiservice WCDMA System -- Short Papers -- Quality of Service Authentication, Authorization and Accounting -- Preliminary Results Towards Building a Highly Granular QoS Controller -- Concept of Admission Control in Packet Switching Networks Based on Tentative Accommodation of Incoming Flows -- Improving Uplink QoS of Wifi Hotspots -- Resilient State Management in Large Scale Networks -- Performance Analysis of Wireless Scheduling with ARQ in Fast Fading Channels -- Privacy and Reliability by Dispersive Routing -- Distributed Online LSP Merging Algorithms for MPLS-TE -- Implicit Flow QoS Signaling Using Semantic-Rich Context Tags -- The Impact of QoS - Where Industry Meets Academia -- Using IP as Transport Technology in Third Generation and Beyond Radio Access Networks -- Closing the Gap Between Industry, Academia and Users: Is There a Need for QoS in Wireless Systems ? -- Why QoS Will Be Needed in Metro Ethernets -- Research Issues in QoS Provisioning for Personal Networks -- RSVP Standards Today and the Path Towards a Generic Messenger -- QoS in Hybrid Networks – An Operator’s Perspective -- QoS for Aggregated Flows in VPNs -- Supporting Mission-Critical Applications over Multi-service Networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Quality of Service, IWQoS 2005, held in Passau, Germany in June 2005. The 23 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on quality of service in overlay networks, wireless environments, large scale systems, mobile systems, and wireless and wired networks. Aspects of user experience and the impact on current and future techniques are discussed as well.