一种区分服务网络的设计与实现

给出了DiffServ网络的一种设计与实现，提出了一种有效的资源管理模型。在该模型中，存在一个带宽代理(Bandwidth Broker)同步多个边界节点的接纳控制，负责区分服务网络之间的SLA(Server Level Agreement)协商，进行路由器配置；边界节点使用RSVP协议为集聚流预留资源；RSVP使用预计算QoS路由寻找路径。整个模型不仅综合了已有资源管理方案的优点，而且保持了区分服务网络的可扩展性。     

实时多媒体服务端到端QoS解决方案

区分服务（Diif-Serv）模型其主要是通过实时多媒体通信数据包进行分类和策略控制来达到调节网络资源的目的,从而实现对实时多媒体服务端到端服务质量QoS。如何时多媒体网络系统中的不同的信息流进行正确的区分服务．然后对不同类别采取不同的服务策略和拥塞管理,从而对网络资源进行有效配置,是实现实时多媒体服务端到端服务质量QoS的关键步骤。文章重点对实时多媒体信息如何进行分类及相应的服务策略和拥塞管理进行时比研究,提出实现端到端QoS服务质量的具体措施和解决方案。并在Cisco思科路由器和交换机建立的DiffSeFV网络环境中进行验证,实验结果表明。对实时多媒体信息进行合理的分类及采用相应服务策略．能很好地实现实时多媒体信息流端到端的服务质量QoS。最后阐述了Diffsenr区分服务存在的问题和未来的发展趋势。     

IntServ与DiffServ结合实现端到端的QoS

本文从网络发展从当前的Best-Effort到QoS的必然趋势出发,介绍了两种主要的QoS控制机制:IntServ和DiffServ体系结构,并通过对两者的不同特点的分析,对两种体系结构的有机结合提出初步的模块设计,并做出展望分析。     

区分服务网络基于测量的接纳控制方案的设计与应用

提出了一种分布式可扩展的接纳控制方案，其目的是为区分服务网络提供端到端服务质量（Quality of Services,QoS)保证，该方案主要由以下部分构成：（1）连接接纳控制协议，主要负责主机和网络节点以及网络节点和带宽代理之间的信息传送，实现对连接请求的串行操作；（2）位于网络核心节点的可用带宽估计算法；（3）位于网络边缘节点的接纳控制算法；给出了该方案在视频传输方面的应用实例；利用多种网络拓扑结构和QoS指标评价该方案的性能，实验结果表明该方案能准确地控制可接纳区域和提高网络资源的利用率。     

Definition and Performance Evaluation of Network Services Deployed Over a Differentiated Services Network

A vital requirement for next generation IP networks is the provision of services with differentiated behavior and characteristics. The basic reason for that is the need to provide Quality of Service (QoS) to the different types of user traffic produced by applications that are different in nature and behavior, analogously to the IP network services. The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) paradigm is still one of the major outcomes of the research community toward the provision of QoS to individual customer needs and applications. This paper addresses the definition and deployment of specific network services in a DiffServ environment. We reuse and extend the fundamental concepts of the Expedited Forwarding and Assured Forwarding per hop behaviors in order to define four new network services, apart from the well known Best Effort one, which introduce a specific traffic handling implementation along with an Admission Control methodology. These are analyzed and simulated in the paper in order to evaluate their performance and confirm the correctness of their fundamental principles.     

A measurement-based approach for dynamic QoS adaptation in DiffServ networks

This paper presents a practical approach to managing multimedia traffic in DiffServ network, using network monitoring feedback and control. We exploit the flexibility of multimedia traffic and process network level parameters to adapt the traffic according to the current state of the network. The latter is determined based on reports sent by bandwidth monitors installed on each node of a DiffServ Domain. The bandwidth monitors interact with a policy server which, depending on the network state, decides the policy(ies) that should be enforced by the DiffServ network. The implementation of the selected policies typically leads to accepting, remarking, or dropping the multimedia traffic entering the network. Multimedia streams may be assigned different levels of QoS, as interpreted by the marker at the DiffServ edge router and marked according to network state. To achieve such dynamic QoS adaptation for multimedia applications, we have implemented and evaluated a policy-based management system. Performance evaluation shows that multimedia applications adapt better to network conditions using our approach.     

Web server QoS models: applying scheduling rules from production planning

Most web servers, in practical use, use a queuing policy based on the Best Effort model, which employs the first-in-first-out (FIFO) scheduling rule to prioritize web requests in a single queue. This model does not provide Quality of Service (QoS). In the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) model, separate queues are introduced to differentiate QoS for separate web requests with different priorities. This paper presents web server QoS models that use a single queue, along with scheduling rules from production planning in the manufacturing domain, to differentiate QoS for classes of web service requests with different priorities. These scheduling rules are Weighted Shortest Processing Time (WSPT), Apparent Tardiness Cost (ATC), and Earliest Due Date. We conduct simulation experiments and compare the QoS performance of these scheduling rules with the FIFO scheme used in the basic Best Effort model with only one queue, and the basic DiffServ model with two separate queues. Simulation results demonstrate better QoS performance using WSPT and ATC, especially when requested services exceed the capacity of a web server.     

Bertrand equilibria and efficiency in markets for congestible network services

This paper is motivated by study of the economics of Quality of Service (QoS) of congestible services. We introduce a queueing game framework to study such problems. We consider multiple competing providers, each offering a queued service. Users are sensitive to both access price and expected delay, and pick providers with the smallest price plus delay cost. We study equilibrium of the pricing (Bertrand) game between the congestible network service providers. We establish the existence of a Nash equilibrium under some natural assumptions. We then consider a setting with multiple classes of differentiated service. Differentiated Services (DiffServ) technologies of the Internet that can provide QoS guarantees have failed to catch on, primarily due to economic impediments. Each provider is now modeled as operating a multi-class queue. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a Nash equilibrium in the Bertrand (pricing) game between the providers. We characterize the inefficiency (price of anarchy) due to strategic pricing to be 2/3. Surprisingly, the price of anarchy for the multi-class setting is the same as for the single-class setting.     

区分服务网络的一种基于聚集状态的动态资源管理方案

提出了一种适用于区分服务网络的确保服务的动态资源提供方案:基于聚集状态的分布式动态资源管理。该方案在网络节点基于聚集状态进行接纳控制和动态资源预留,不需要核心节点保存单个流的状态,因此,该方案是可扩展的。方案包括一种轻量级动态资源预留协议和网络节点动态资源管理的相关算法,如状态建立、管理和接纳控制决策算法。该方案中,网络节点聚集状态的建立使用了基于实时流量测量的方法,在提供服务质量(QualityofService,QoS)保证的同时,得到了统计复用的增益,提高了资源的利用率,简化了信令协议,也使该方案具有很好的健壮性。     

PROQOS—Dynamic SLA Management in DiffServ Space Links

Several base elements for the provision of quality of service guarantees have been developed in the recent past. Of these, the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) architecture stands out as the most promising. In spite of this, various issues remain, especially when multidomain DiffServ services are concerned. In this case, some forms of distributed management of Service Level Agreements that allow the specification, exchange, enforcement and monitoring of quality of service data must be in place. Although, again, some isolated solutions exist for each of these problems, considerable effort is necessary to make them work together. The project presented in this paper tried to assess the feasibility of providing differentiated quality of service in satellite IP networks, by developing a dynamic Service Level Agreement management solution for an IP over Digital Video Broadcast Satellite system. The functionality of the implemented system comprises system configuration, dynamic SLA negotiation, QoS monitoring and metering, SLA conformance checking, and QoS reporting to customers.     

Managing Quality-of-Service in Internet Applications Using Differentiated Services

Advances in networks during the past decades have fostered the deployment of a variety of Internet applications. Many of these applications have a range of Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements, some involving network throughput, delay, and reliability. Consequently, there is growing need for network services that can differentiate applications having QoS requirements from those without and to be able to further classify applications with QoS requirements into different classes at the IP-network level. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has proposed Differentiated Services (DiffServ) to provide QoS in IP-based networks. The goal of DiffServ is to define configurable types of packet forwarding that can provide service differentiation for large aggregates of network traffic. We report on our investigation of Relative Proportional Differentiated Services to implement DiffServ in IP-based networks and one that supports the provisioning and management of QoS for Internet Applications. The main contributions of the paper are the introduction of a novel traffic conditioning architecture for the marker and shaper/policer which relies on feedback from a metering component, and the provision for a QoS manager to enable a network administrator or a management application to dynamically adjust control parameters.     

Improved Competitive Guarantees for QoS Buffering

We consider a network providing Differentiated Services (DiffServ), which allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer different levels of Quality of Service (QoS) to different traffic streams. We study two types of buffering policies that are used in network switches supporting QoS. In the FIFO type, packets must be transmitted in the order they arrive. In the uniform bounded delay type, there is a maximal delay time associated with the switch and each packet must be transmitted within this time, or otherwise it is dropped. In both models the buffer space is limited, and packets are lost when the buffer overflows. Each packet has an intrinsic value, and the goal is to maximize the total value of transmitted packets. Our main contribution is an algorithm for the FIFO model with arbitrary packet values that for the first time achieves a competitive ratio better than 2, namely 2-ε for a constant ε gt; 0. We also describe an algorithm for the uniform bounded delay model which simulates our algorithm for the FIFO model, and show that it achieves the same competitive ratio.     

FIAC: a resource discovery-based two-level admission control for differentiated service networks

Differentiated Service (DiffServ) architecture has been proposed as a scalable QoS architecture for Internet. DiffServ, however, could not control its loads under heavy traffic conditions, and it could not provide strong QoS responses for individual traffic flow. This paper introduces at the edges of a DiffServ domain, a novel two-level admission control scheme, the Fair Intelligent Admission Control (FIAC). At per-class level, FIAC admits traffic according their fairshare and usage while preventing possible congestion within the DiffServ core. At per-flow level, FIAC estimates and allocates the fairshare for each flow within a class.

Simulation results demonstrate that FIAC adheres extremely well to the bandwidth requirements of DiffServ classes while preventing congestion within the DiffServ core. With FIAC's per-flow level enabled, FIAC is able to prevent uncontrolled UDP flows from depriving TCP-controlled flows of bandwidth share when they are aggregated to the DiffServ domain.     

Edge-limited scalable QoS flow set-up

Although the Differentiated Services architecture supports scalable packet forwarding based on aggregate flows, the detailed procedure of Quality of Service (QoS) flow set-up within this architecture has not been well established. In this paper we explore the possibility of a scalable QoS flow set-up using a sink-tree paradigm. The paradigm initially constructs a sink tree at each egress edge router using network topology and bandwidth information provided by a QoS extended version of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), which is a widely used link-state routing protocol. Our sink-tree paradigm dynamically reallocates network bandwidths online according to traffic demands. As a consequence, our paradigm easily supports QoS routing, resource allocation, and admission control at ingress edge routers without consulting core routers in a way that the QoS flow set-up time and overhead are minimized. Simulation results are very encouraging in that the proposed methodology requires significantly less communication overhead in setting up QoS flows compared to the traditional per-flow signaling-based methodology while still maintaining high resource utilization.     

Managing QoS for Multimedia Applications in the Differentiated Services Environment

The overall quality of network connections has a significant impact on the performance of networked applications. As a result, Quality-of-Service (QoS) management for networked multimedia applications over IP is a significant and immediate challenge. While differentiated services (DiffServ) provide a sense of resource allocation and QoS, they do not guarantee QoS. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a content-aware bandwidth broker (CABB) that manages QoS for multimedia applications in a DiffServ environment. CABB allocates network resources to multimedia flows based on client requirements, the adaptability of the application, and its tolerance to network level parameters such as bandwidth, delay, and latency. It has been implemented and evaluated using the NS-2 simulator toolkit. Evaluations show that CABB improves network resource allocations and increases overall throughput. Furthermore multimedia application flows are better managed and controlled, improving perceived QoS and avoiding possible congestion at core routers.     

An innovative workflow mapping mechanism for Grids in the frame of Quality of Service

The advent of Grid environments made feasible the solution of computational intensive problems in a reliable and cost-effective way. As workflow systems carry out more complex and mission-critical applications, Quality of Service (QoS) analysis serves to ensure that each application meets user requirements. In that frame, we present a novel algorithm which allows the mapping of workflow processes to Grid provided services assuring at the same time end-to-end provision of QoS based on user-defined parameters and preferences. We also demonstrate the operation of the implemented algorithm and evaluate its effectiveness using a Grid scenario, based on a 3D image rendering application.     

基于H.323协议的实时多媒体网络系统中QoS的保证与实现

H．323是国际电信联盟标准部(ITU-T)制定且全球普遍接受的关于多媒体通讯的标准之一。本文主要对因特网上H．323实时多媒体通信进行研究,着重分析影响实时多媒体网络系统中QoS服务质量保证的因素,提出实现实时多媒体网络系统中QoS服务质量的具体措施和方法。区分服务(Diff-Serv)模型具灵活性,可扩展性和简单易于实现的特点,是实现对实时多媒体网络系统中服务质量QoS的可取的技术。     

Hardware implementation study of several new egress link scheduling algorithms

The provision of Quality of Service (QoS) in interconnection networks is required for new multimedia and time-sensitive applications, which are very important for recent utility computing data centers (UCDCs) using high performance networks. These interconnection networks support switch-based principles and establish high demands in terms of bandwidth, time-delay, and delivery over short distances. A key component for networks with QoS support is the egress link scheduling algorithm. Apart from providing a good performance in terms of, for example, good end-to-end delay (also called latency) and fair bandwidth allocation, an ideal scheduling algorithm implemented in a high-performance network with QoS support should satisfy another important property which is to have a low computational and implementation complexity. In this paper, we propose specific implementations (taking into account the characteristics of current high performance networks) of several fair-queuing scheduling algorithms and compare their complexity in terms of silicon area and computation delay. In order to carry out this comparison, we have devised our own hardware comparison methodology. Following this methodology, we have performed our own hardware implementation for the different schedulers. We have modeled the schedulers using the Handel-C language and employed the DK design suite tool from Celoxica in order to obtain hardware estimates on silicon area and arbitration time.     

Price aggregation in an end-to-end QoS provisioning

In this paper we are focusing on the possibility that information about end users' willingness to pay for data transfer in the end-to-end manner is propagated through the communication network to achieve certain level of QoS. We propose a scheme where price information is propagated along the network path, where each network resource subtracts its share of value from packet's price. The proposed scheme establishes a direct relationship between expressed willingness to pay and gained QoS level. The scheme could be further developed and implemented with compliancy to QoS standards, like Differentiated and Integrated Services.     

IPv6下的DiffServ机制的研究与仿真

服务质量(QoS)对于Internet用户来说,是至关重要的I。Pv4网络的缺点之一就是缺少对QoS的支持,对所有通信应用都以尽力而为(Best Effort)的方式提供服务。对于一些实时性较强的应用(如视频会议等),无法对其特殊性给予保障。IPv6协议在吸取了IPv4教训的基础上,不仅解决了32位地址的局限,而且增加了OoS支持,端到端的安全机制,跳数限制等。本文主要针对IPv6下QoS中DiffServ机制的原理、架构及实施过程进行了研究,并且使用网络仿真软件OPNETModeler构建了DiffServ环境,进行了仿真试验。分别使用不同的排队机制进行试验,然后针对仿真结果进一步分析。