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| Networking Council Foreword | |
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| From the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Internet Performance and Quality of Service | |
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| What Is Quality of Service? | |
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| Quality of Service: The Elusive Elephant | |
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| What Is Quality? | |
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| What Is Service? | |
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| Service Guarantees | |
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| Quality of Service versus Classes of Service | |
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| Implementing Performance Quality | |
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| QoS and Fairness | |
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| The Current Situation: QoS without the Hype | |
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| Early QoS Experience | |
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| Why Is QoS Compelling? | |
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| Performance and Over-Engineering | |
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| Why Hasn't QoS Been Deployed? | |
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| Scaling Pressures and Performance | |
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| QoS Characteristics | |
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| Performance Management | |
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| Insurmountable Complexity? | |
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| References | |
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| RFCs | |
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| The Performance Toolkit | |
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| Performance Terminology | |
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| The Internet Protocol and Performance | |
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| The Internet Protocol | |
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| IPv6 | |
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| IPv6 Service Performance Fields | |
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| IPv6 QoS Observations | |
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| Protocol Performance | |
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| Interactive TCP | |
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| TCP Volume Transfer | |
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| Routers and Performance | |
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| What Is a Router? | |
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| Router Functions | |
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| Routing and Switching | |
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| Multi-Protocol Label Switching | |
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| Router Requirements | |
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| Transmission Systems and Performance | |
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| Defining Transmission Systems | |
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| The Carrier Hierarchy | |
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| Digital Circuits | |
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| SONET and SDH Circuits | |
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| ISDN | |
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| X.25 | |
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| Frame Relay | |
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| Wavelength Division Multiplexing | |
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| Observations | |
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| References | |
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| RFCs | |
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| IETF Internet Drafts | |
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| Performance Tuning Techniques | |
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| Packet Classification | |
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| Packet Service Classification | |
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| Admission Classification Controls | |
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| Other Forms of Classification | |
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| Classification Actions | |
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| Queuing Disciplines | |
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| Managing Queues | |
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| FIFO Queuing | |
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| Priority Queuing | |
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| Class-Based Queuing | |
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| Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) | |
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| A Comparison of Queuing Disciplines | |
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| Packet Discard | |
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| Tail Drop | |
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| Early Drop | |
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| Head of Queue and Random Drop | |
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| Drop Preference | |
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| Traffic Shaping and Admission Control | |
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| The Token Bucket | |
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| Traffic Shaping | |
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| Admission Control | |
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| Network-Admission Policy | |
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| Admission Policy | |
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| Protocol Performance Revisited | |
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| Random Early Detection (RED) | |
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| Introducing Unfairness | |
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| Weighted Random Early Detection | |
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| Active and Passive Admission Control | |
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| Explicit Congestion Notification | |
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| Threshold Triggering | |
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| Varying Levels of Best Effort | |
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| QoS Routing | |
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| What Is QoS Routing? | |
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| Equipping OSPF for QoSR | |
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| QoS Routing Requirements | |
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| Objectives of a QoS Routing System | |
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| Link Fragmentation and Packet Compression | |
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| Active Networks | |
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| Interoperability and Complexity | |
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| References | |
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| RFCs | |
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| IETF Internet Drafts | |
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| Quality of Service Architectures | |
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| Service Delivery Using IP Type of Service | |
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| IP Service Profiles | |
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| IP Precedence | |
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| IP Type of Service Observations | |
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| Integrated Services Architecture | |
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| Integrated Services Framework: Background | |
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| Integrated Services Model Components | |
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| QoS Requirements | |
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| Controlled Load Service Class | |
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| Guaranteed QoS Service Class | |
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| Provisions for Usage Accounting | |
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| RSVP: Resource Reservation Protocol | |
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| Integrated Services and RSVP-over-ATM | |
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| Integrated Services over Local Area Network Media | |
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| Observations on the Integrated Services Architecture | |
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| The Differentiated Services Architecture | |
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| DiffServ Network Elements | |
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| Per-Hop Behaviors | |
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| Differentiated Services and Network Resource Management | |
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| Differentiated Services and the End-to-End Service Model | |
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| Observations on the Differentiated Services Architecture | |
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| Combining Integrated and Differentiated Services | |
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| The QoS Management Architecture | |
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| The Policy Model | |
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| Common Open Policy Service | |
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| Diameter | |
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| Management Observations | |
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| References | |
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| RFCs | |
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| IETF Internet Drafts | |
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| Performance Engineering | |
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| QoS Components | |
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| Service Models | |
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| Service Engineering | |
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| QoS Service Applications | |
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| Per-Application Services | |
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| Dedicated Bandwidth Services | |
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| Congestion Management | |
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| Premium Services | |
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| Multicast Applications | |
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| MPLS and QoS Engineering | |
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| MPLS and the Integrated Services Architecture | |
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| MPLS and the Differentiated Services Architecture | |
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| MPLS and Traffic Engineering | |
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| Low-Bandwidth Networks | |
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| Managing Performance in Low-Bandwidth Environments | |
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| Managing Performance in Unreliable Environments | |
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| Managing and Measuring QoS | |
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| Service Measurement Approaches | |
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| Service Level Agreements | |
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| Service Accounting | |
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| Interprovider Issues | |
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| Interprovider Settlements and QoS | |
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| References | |
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| RFCs | |
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| IETF Internet Drafts | |
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| What Is Quality of Service Anyway? | |
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| Achieving Service Quality | |
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| Service Quality and the Network | |
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| Service Quality and the Host | |
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| Providing QoS | |
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| QoS and the Internet Router | |
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| QoS Signaling | |
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| QoS and the Network | |
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| Deploying RSVP | |
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| QoS Observations | |
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| There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch | |
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| Dumb Networks and Smart Networks | |
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| A Matter of Marketing? | |
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| A Matter of Economics? | |
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| A Matter of Technology? | |
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| What's Wrong with This Picture? | |
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| References | |
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| RFCs | |
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| Glossary | |