The AQUILA project aims at the dynamic provision of Quality of Services features for end-users over the existing Internet. AQUILA has developed an architecture that allows end-users to have application sessions where the communication is of higher quality than nowadays, and to explicitly request for such QoS sessions.

This deliverable describes approach of the project and documents the architecture of the chosen solution on the level of the network and offered services as well as the structure of the components of the control layers.

The document serves as a general description of the AQUILA solution. As such it tries to be self-contained and should be readable without prior detailed knowledge of the project. However it is helpful to consult other documents of the project, especially from workpackage 1.3.