… In an attempt to explore the limits of such a class-based service, we define in this paper a
“Quantitative Assured Forwarding” 1 service that offers, on a per-hop basis, both absolute and …

… of AQM mechanisms on the performance of the Assured Forwarding (AF) Service in the
non-oversubscribed Differentiated Services networks. The AQM mechanisms to be studied …

… Quantitative and tunable performance may be independently specified and provided by …
Uniform implementation across a specific domain allows defining a quantitative view (eg, a PDB, …

… Differentiated Services (DS) aims to provide scalable service differentiation in the Internet …
pricing of Internet service [1]. This differentiation may either be quantitative or relative. DS is …

… this question through a quantitative comparison of the services that are … service profile is
specified as an assured window size W,. If the service profile is specified as a maximum assured …

… in Assured Forwarding based Differentiated Services (Diffserv… can be articulated in Service
Level Agreements (SLAs). This … to be resolved before quantitative assurances of some form …

… -time flows requiring quantitative and deterministic QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees. We
… to the EF (Expedited Forwarding) class in a DiffServ (Differentiated Services) architecture. …

… of Assured Forwarding (AF) in the Differentiated Services (… flows and ensuring protection
against non-assured traffic. … Kurose, “A quantitative study of differentiated services for the …

… parameters of a Service Level Agreement in an Assured Forwarding based Diffservcapable …
providing quantitative guarantees for performance parameters in Assured Forwarding based …

… We sketch the design of a scalable service architecture for providing strong service … notion
of strong service guarantees by presenting the quantitative assured forwarding service, and …