Enhancing router QoS through job scheduling with weighted shortest processing time-adjusted

  • Authors:
  • Nong Ye;Zhibin Yang;Ying-Cheng Lai;Toni Farley

  • Affiliations:
  • Information and Systems Assurance Laboratory, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875906, Tempe, AZ;Information and Systems Assurance Laboratory, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875906, Tempe, AZ;Information and Systems Assurance Laboratory, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875906, Tempe, AZ;Information and Systems Assurance Laboratory, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875906, Tempe, AZ

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Most routers on the Internet employ a first-in-first-out (FIFO) scheduling rule to determine the order of serving data packets. This scheduling rule does not provide quality of service (QoS) with regards to the differentiation of services for data packets with different service priorities and the enhancement of routing performance. We develop a scheduling rule called Weighted Shortest Processing Time-Adjusted (WSPT-A), which is derived from WSPT (a scheduling rule for production planning in the manufacturing domain), to enhance router QoS. We implement a QoS router model based on WSPT-A and run simulations to measure and compare the routing performance of our model with that of router models based on the FIFO and WSPT scheduling rules. The simulation results show superior QoS performance when using the router model with WSPT-A.