This paper explores the issue of fair allocation of excess network bandwidth between congestion
sensitive and insensitive flows in an assured forwarding traffic class. In the absence of …

… study of the effects of AQM mechanisms on the performance of the Assured Forwarding (AF) …
We do simulations with # = 5 in order to investigate whether the number of micro-flows in an …

… (n), then we can approximate the effects of changes to the rate … of the controller and the effects
of the service rate adjustment … We limit the total number of packets that can be queued to B …

This informational draft explores the issue of fair allocation of excess network bandwidth
between congestion sensitive and insensitive flows in an Assured Forwarding traffic class. In the …

… In [18] the effect of the number of drop precedences in the Assured … In particular, when
the number of Assured Forwarding traffic sources is high, a large number of non-conformant …

… assured forwarding class. We identify several factors that affect the performance in the mixed
environments and quantify their effects … given an identification number to each simulation (…

… The loss interval, s i , is defined as the number of packets transmitted correctly between two
… In the first scenario, we investigate the effect of the network subscription level, or load, on …

… the Assured Forwarding (AF) Per Hop Behavior (PHB). Recent studies of the AF PHB showed
that there are a number … In this paper we investigate the effect of separating TCP and UDP …

… The DiffServ framework provides a small, yet effective, number … the Expedited Forwarding
(EF) and the Assured Forwarding (… In the first scenario, we investigate the effect of the network …

… We conclude this section, by considering the effect of a low number of flows per customer,
of the order of a few units (for instance home users). In particular we analyze the performance …