BGRP: Quiet Grafting Mechanisms for Providing a Scalable End-to-End QoS solution

  • Authors:

  • Petros Sampatakos;Lila Dimopoulou;Eugenia Nikolouzou;Iakovos S Venieris;Thomas Engel;Martin Winter

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou str, 157 73 Athens, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou str, 157 73 Athens, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou str, 157 73 Athens, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou str, 157 73 Athens, Greece;Corporate Technology, Networks and Multimedia Communications, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany;Information and Communication Networks, Hofmann str. 51, Siemens AG, 81359 Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The provisioning of quality of service guarantees over a region spanning multiple administrative domains is nowadays one of the most basic and crucial issues. A scalable and efficient end-to-end QoS architecture is indispensable for ensuring the desired QoS guarantees to QoS-aware services. Towards this end, this paper introduces a scalable inter-domain resource control architecture for Differentiated Services networks. The proposed architecture is based on the Border Gateway Resource Protocol framework, while scalability issues are further elaborated. Therefore, our discussion mainly extends to Quiet Grafting mechanisms, which succeed in significantly limiting the signalling load and efficiently handling the resources reserved between domains. Extended simulation scenarios verify the efficiency of the proposed 'quiet grafting mechanisms', while the applicability of the results, especially with respect to real world networks and scenarios is stated.