Evaluation of Bandwidth Broker Signaling

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Guenter;Torsten Braun

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The Differentiated Service (DiffServ) architecture for the Internet implements a scalable mechanism for quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning. Bandwidth brokers represent the instances of the architecture, that automate the provisioning of a DiffServ service between network domains. Although several bandwidth broker implementations have been proposed, the alternatives and tradeoffs of the different viable approaches of inter-broker communication were not studied up to now. This paper presents the broker signaling tradeoffs considered in the context of a DiffServ scenario used by the Swiss National Science Foundation project CATI, and it presents results gathered by simulations.