IP QoS: Traveling in First Class on the Internet

  • Authors:
  • Chris Metz

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The concept of quality of service-that is, the network capability to provide a nondefault service to a subset of the aggregate traffic-has now entered the IP lexicon. The author surveys the history of this development from the Internet's original passenger-class-only, best-effort protocol suite. He concludes with a review of the current Internet Engineering Task Force's efforts in the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) working group