… assurance and, therefore, it can not be widely deployed. I n this paper, we introduce a new
protocol for a Diffserv … distribution of the link capacity among the three service classes for two …

… business, which requires strict guarantee of not only bandwidth but also … of bandwidth alone
is not sufficient for these promising contents business applications. They need assurance of …

… Abstract-A challenge for the differentiated services (DS) architecture is how to simultaneously
provide end-to-end assured service (AS) for transport control protocol (TCP) sessions and …

… services based on best-effort traffic, with a range of services receiving qualitative traffic
assurances … Assuming a DiffServ and/or MPLS IP-based network infrastructure, we propose a …

… The Trafic Conditioner in Differentiated Services The traffic conditioner forms a key part of
a differentiated services network. Its purpose is to apply conditioning functions on previously-…

… When work with the MCOAS model, we are able to provide end-to-end throughput
assurance to individual without requiring the core router to keep per-flow information. …

… , loss, and delay characteristics down to low-cost services based on best-effort traffic, with …
traffic assurances occupying the middle ground. Assuming a DiffServ MPLS IP-based network …

… mechanisms to account for network usage. This thesis describes Differentiated Services,
a scalable … traffic and is not provided with any kind of service assurance. At the edge of the …

… In contrast, our work produces service assurances that are quantitative in … loss differentiation,
and support bandwidth allocation priorities across service classes within a DiffServ core net…

… Traffic engineering and access mechanisms can both be effective approaches to ensure
that differentiated services provide relative QoS assurances to a range of traffic classes; …