Discussion: Classification determines the per-hop behaviors and traffic conditioning
functions, such as shaping and dropping, that are to be applied to the packet. Classification …

The results of a study using different drop precedence assignments to address fairness
issues when UDP and TCP traffic share the same Assured Forwarding (AF) PHB class in …

Fairness is one of the important problems in assured forwarding (AF) performance in the
differentiated services (DiffServ) framework [An architecture for differentiated services, RFC …

This paper examines the use of adaptive priority marking for providing soft bandwidth
guarantees in a differentiated-services Internet. In contrast to other proposals for achieving …

The differentiated services architecture provides router mechanisms for aggregate traffic,
and edge mechanisms for individual flows, that together can be used to build services with …

Much industry attention has been focused on providing differentiated levels of service to
users on IP networks. One such proposal is the RIO scheme proposed by Clark (see ACM …

In the context of relative differentiated services the network traffic is grouped in N classes of
service which differ in their relative forwarding quality, ie, class i is better than class i-1 in …

Relationships among delay, throughput, and fairness, three conflicting performance criteria
in modern flow-controlled communication networks, are investigated, and an optimal tradeoff …

Previous work on differentiated services in the Internet has defined new notions of QoS that
apply to aggregates of traffic in networks with coarse spatial granularity. Most proposals for …

The differentiated services (DiffServ) model, proposed to evolve the current best-effort
Internet to a quality-of-service-aware Internet, provides packet level service differentiation on …