Incorporation of service classes into a network architecture

  • Authors:
  • Radia Perlman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIGCOMM '81 Proceedings of the seventh symposium on Data communications
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

This paper defines a service class and describes how a completely general service class structure can be provided by a packet switched network. It describes the difference between a handling directive and a routing metric, and defines a service class as an arbitrary collection of handling directives and routing metrics. It describes what types of distributed routing algorithms make it possible to provide for a completely general service class concept in a network, and describes the special problems to be encountered when providing for a general service class capability in a hierarchical network.