QOS-Enabled Networks: Tools and Foundations Book

About the Authors.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1 - QOS world.

Operation and Signaling.

Standards and Per-Hop Behavior.

Traffic Characterization.

A Router without QOS.

Conclusions.

Chapter 2 - The QOS tools.

2.1 Classifiers and Classes of Service.

2.2 Metering and Coloring – CIR/PIR Model.

2.3 Policer.

2.4 Shaper.

2.5 Comparing Policing and Shaping.

2.6 Queue.

2.7 Scheduler.

2.8 Rewrite tool.

2.9 Example of Combining Tools.

2.10 Delay and Jitter Insertion.

2.11 Packet Loss.

2.12 Conclusions.

Chapter 3 – Challenges.

3.1 Defining the Classes of Service.

3.2 Classes of Service and Queues Mapping.

3.3 Inherent Delay Factors.

3.4 Congestion Points.

3.5 Trust Borders.

3.6 Granularity Levels.

3.7 Control traffic.

3.8 Trust, Granularity, and Control Traffic.

3.9 Conclusions.

Chapter 4 - Traffic types.

4.1 Anatomy of the TCP protocol.

4.2 The TCP Session.

4.3 TCP congestion mechanism.

4.4 TCP Congestion scenario.

4.5 PMTU.

4.6 QOS conclusions for TCP.

4.7 Real-time traffic.

4.8 Anatomy of real-time traffic.

4.9 RTP.

4.10 VOIP.

4.11 QOS conclusions for VOIP.

4.12 IPTV.

4.13 QOS conclusions for IPTV.

4.14 Long-lived vs short-lived sessions.

4.15 Example of Internet Radio/Video.

4.16 Example of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.

4.17 Discovering P2P on the network.

4.18 Illegal file sharing and copyright violation.

4.19 QOS conclusions for new Internet applications.

4.20 Further reading.

Chapter 5 – Classifiers.

Packet QOS Markings.

Inbound Interface Information.

Deep packet inspection.

Selecting Classifiers.

The QOS network perspective.

MPLS DiffServ-TE.

Mixing different QOS realms.

Conclusions.

Further reading.

Chapter 6 – Policing and Shaping.

6.1 Token buckets.

6.2 Traffic Bursts.

6.3 Dual-Rate Token Buckets.

6.4 Shapers and leaky buckets.

6.5 Excess Traffic and Oversubscription.

6.6 Comparing and Applying Policer and Shaper Tools.

6.7 Conclusions.

6.8 Further reading.

Chapter 7 - Queuing and Scheduling.

7.1 Queuing and scheduling concepts.

7.2 Packets and cellification.

7.3 Different types of queuing disciplines.

7.4 FIFO - First in, first out.

7.5 Priority queuing.

7.6 Weighted fair queueing.

7.7 Priority-Based Deficit Weighted Round Robin.

7.8 Conclusions about the Best Queuing Discipline.

7.9 Further reading.

Chapter 8 - Advanced queueing topics.

8.1 Hierarchical scheduling.

8.2 Queues lengths and buffer size.

8.3 Dynamically sized vs. fixed-size queue buffers.

8.4 Using RED with TCP sessions.

8.5 Differentiating traffic inside a queue with WRED.

8.6 Head versus Tail RED.

8.7 Segmented and interpolated RED profiles.

8.8 Conclusions.

8.9 Further reading.

Chapter 9 - VPLS Case Study.

9.1 High-Level Case Study Overview.

9.2 Virtual Private Networks.

9.3 Service Overview.

9.4 Service Technical Implementation.

9.5 Network Internals.

9.6 Classes of Service and Queue Mapping.

9.7 Classification and Trust Borders.

9.8 Admission Control.

9.9 Rewrite rules.

9.10 Absorbing traffic bursts at the egress.

9.11 Queues and Scheduling at Core-Facing Interfaces.

9.12 Queues and Scheduling at Customer-Facing Interfaces.

9.13 Tracing a Packet Through the Network.

9.14 Adding More Services.

9.15 Multicast Traffic.

9.16 Using Bandwidth Reservations.

9.17 Conclusions.

9.18 Further Reading.

Chapter 10 - Case Study IP RAN and Mobile Backhaul QOS.

10.1 Evolution from 2G to 4G.

10.2 2G Network Components.

10.3 Traffic on 2G Networks.

10.4 3G Network Components.

10.5 Traffic on 3G Networks.

10.6 LTE Network Components.

10.7 LTE Traffic Types.

10.8 LTE Traffic Classes.

10.9 Conclusions.

10.10 Further reading.

Chapter 11 - Conclusions.

Index.