Quality Of Service Part 1

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Quality of Service Models
IP Type of Service (TOS)
Best Effort
No QoS policies are implemented
Precedence
Integrated Services (IntServ)
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) is used to reserve bandwidth per-
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TOS
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flow across all nodes in a path
Differentiated Services (DiffServ)
Packets are individually classified and marked; policy decisions are made
DSCP
independently by each node in a path
Precedence/DSCP
Layer 2 QoS Markings
Binary
DSCP
Prec.
Medium
Name
Type
56
111000
Reserved
7
Ethernet Class of Service (CoS)
3-bit 802.1p field in 802.1Q header
48
110000
Reserved
6
Frame Relay Discard Eligibility (DE) 1-bit drop eligibility flag
46
101110
EF
5
ATM
Cell Loss Priority (CLP)
1-bit drop eligibility flag
32
100000
CS4
MPLS
Traffic Class (TC)
3-bit field compatible with 802.1p
34
100010
AF41
IP QoS Markings
4
36
100100
AF42
IP Precedence
38
100110
AF43
The first three bits of the IP TOS field; limited to 8 traffic classes
Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
24
011000
CS3
The first six bits of the IP TOS are evaluated to provide more granular
26
011010
AF31
classification; backward-compatible with IP Precedence
3
28
011100
AF32
QoS Flowchart
30
011110
AF33
No
16
010000
CS2
Software Queue
18
010010
AF21
HW
Yes
2
Queuing
Hardware
Queue
Software Queue
20
010100
AF22
Decision
Queue
Full?
22
010110
AF23
Software Queue
8
001000
CS1
10
001010
AF11
Terminology
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12
001100
AF12
Per-Hop Behavior (PHB)
The individual QoS action performed at each independent DiffServ node
14
001110
AF13
Trust Boundary
Beyond this, inbound QoS markings are not trusted
0
000000
BE
0
Tail Drop
Occurs when a packet is dropped because a queue is full
Congestion Avoidance
Policing
Random Early Detection (RED)
Imposes an artificial ceiling on the amount of bandwidth that may be
Packets are randomly dropped
consumed; traffic exceeding the policer rate is reclassified or dropped
before a queue is full to prevent tail
Shaping
drop; mitigates TCP
Similar to policing but buffers excess traffic for delayed transmission;
synchronization
makes more efficient use of bandwidth but introduces a delay
Weighted RED (WRED)
TCP Synchronization
RED with the added capability of
Flows adjust TCP window sizes in synch, making inefficient use of a link
recognizing prioritized traffic based
DSCP Per-Hop Behaviors
on its marking
Class Selector (CS)
Backward-compatible with IP Precedence values
Class-Based WRED (CBWRED)
WRED employed inside a class-
Assured Forwarding (AF)
Four classes with variable drop preferences
based WFQ (CBWFQ) queue
Expedited Forwarding (EF)
Priority queuing for delay-sensitive traffic
by Jeremy Stretch
v2.0

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