Weighted proportional loss rate differentiation of TCP traffic

  • Authors:
  • James Aweya;Michel Ouellette;Delfin Y. Montuno

  • Affiliations:
  • Nortel Networks, P.O. Box 3511, Station C/ Ottawa, Canada KIY 4H7;-;School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Canada

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Network Management
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Relative service differentiation refers to service models that provide assurances for the relative quality ordering between classes, rather than for the absolute service level in each class. An example is the proportional differentiation model which provides a way to control the quality spacing between classes locally at each hop. In this model, certain forwarding metrics are ratioed proportional to the class differentiation parameters that the network operator chooses. In this paper, we propose a new proportional loss rate differentiation mechanism that integrates relative loss rate differentiation directly into active queue management using random early detection.