applications and services that meet end-to-end quality of service requirements. The key
parts of the standards are already in place, and limited 3G services have already been
turned on. While the evolution to 3G occurs, many operators will implement 2.5 G interim
solutions for a good period of time. We discuss the various evolution scenarios from the
present 2G networks to 3G networks. Then we present the UMTS QoS architecture and its …