A Simple FIFO-Based Scheme for Differentiated Loss Guarantees

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Today’s Internet carries an ever broadening range of application traffic with different requirements. This has stressed its original, one-class, best-effort model, and has been one of the main drivers behind the many efforts aimed at introducing QoS. Those efforts have, however, experienced only limited success because their added complexity often conflict with the scalability requirements of the Internet. This has motivated many proposals that try to offer service differentiation while keeping complexity low. This paper shares similar goals and proposes a simple scheme, BoundedRandomDrop (BRD), that supports multiple service classes. BRD focuses on loss differentiation, as although both losses and delay are important performance parameters, the steadily rising speed of Internet links is progressively limiting the impact of delay differentiation. BRD offers strong loss differentiation capabilities with minimal added cost. BRD does not require traffic profiles or admission controls. It guarantees each class losses that, when feasible, are no worse than a specified bound, and enforces differentiation only when required to meet those bounds. In addition, BRD is implemented using a single FIFO queue and a simple random dropping mechanism. The performance of BRD is investigated for a broad range of traffic mixes and shown to consistently achieve its design goals.

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2004-06-07
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Copyright 2004 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service 2004 (IWQOS 2004), pages 96-105. Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=29055&page=1 This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Pennsylvania's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.
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