QoS ad hoc Internetworking: Dynamic Adaptation of Differentiated Services Boundaries
Michael Smirnov6 
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GMD FOKUS, Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee, 31 |
Abstract
The Internet needs QoS internetworking to become QoS aware in the end-to-end sense. We address only one issue of this - adaptation
of the differentiated services architecture, in particular, dynamic creation of DiffServ virtual boundaries. Our solution
is fully distributed and data driven, therefore it could be considered as QoS ad hoc internetworking on contrary to statically
configured DiffServ. The proposal is two fold. First, to support invariance under aggregation we suggest to maintain Per Domain
Behaviours (PDB) based on Per Path Behaviours, and, second, to use group communication based on native IP multicast for needed
QoS signalling and resource control. The paper shows that due to flexible grouping policies the approach has high scalability
and good deployment potential.
Research outlined in this paper is partly funded by the IST project CADENUS ‘Creation and Deployment of End-User Services
in Premium IP Networks” http://www.cadenus.org/
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