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Differentiated services

Index Differentiated services

Differentiated services or DiffServ is a computer networking architecture that specifies a simple and scalable mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic and providing quality of service (QoS) on modern IP networks. [1]

38 relations: Bandwidth Broker, Best-effort delivery, Call Admission Control, Class of service, Computer network, Explicit Congestion Notification, Fair queuing, File transfer, Huawei, Integrated services, Internet, Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet Protocol, IP header, IPv4, IPv6 packet, Latency (engineering), Network delay, Network layer, Packet loss, Per-hop behaviour, Priority queue, Quality of service, Random early detection, Rate limiting, Router (computing), Scalability, Service-level agreement, Streaming media, Tail drop, Teletraffic engineering, Traffic classification, Traffic policing (communications), Traffic shaping, Type of service, Voice over IP, Web traffic, Weighted fair queueing.

Bandwidth Broker

RFC 2638 from the IETF defines the entity of the Bandwidth Broker (BB) in the framework of differentiated services (DiffServ).

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Best-effort delivery

Best-effort delivery describes a network service in which the network does not provide any guarantee that data is delivered or that delivery meets any quality of service.

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Call Admission Control

Call Admission Control (CAC) prevents oversubscription of VoIP networks.

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Class of service

Class of service is a parameter used in data and voice protocols to differentiate the types of payloads contained in the packet being transmitted.

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Computer network

A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.

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Explicit Congestion Notification

Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) is an extension to the Internet Protocol and to the Transmission Control Protocol and is defined in RFC 3168 (2001).

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Fair queuing

Fair queuing is a family of scheduling algorithms used in some process and network schedulers.

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File transfer

File transfer is the transmission of a computer file through a communication channel from one computer system to another.

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Huawei

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational networking, telecommunications equipment, and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.

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Integrated services

In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP).

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Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.

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IP header

An IP header is header information at the beginning of an IP packet which contains information about IP version, source IP address, destination IP address, time-to-live, etc.

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IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP).

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IPv6 packet

An IPv6 packet is the smallest message entity exchanged via the Internet Protocol across an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) network.

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Latency (engineering)

Latency is a time interval between the stimulation and response, or, from a more general point of view, a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.

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Network delay

Network delay is an important design and performance characteristic of a computer network or telecommunications network.

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Network layer

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the network layer is layer 3.

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Packet loss

Packet loss occurs when one or more packets of data travelling across a computer network fail to reach their destination.

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Per-hop behaviour

In computer networking, per-hop behaviour (PHB) is a term used in differentiated services (DiffServ) or multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).

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Priority queue

In computer science, a priority queue is an abstract data type which is like a regular queue or stack data structure, but where additionally each element has a "priority" associated with it.

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Quality of service

Quality of service (QoS) is the description or measurement of the overall performance of a service, such as a telephony or computer network or a cloud computing service, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network.

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Random early detection

Random early detection (RED), also known as random early discard or random early drop is a queueing discipline for a network scheduler suited for congestion avoidance.

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Rate limiting

In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of traffic sent or received by a network interface controller and is used to prevent DoS attacks.

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Router (computing)

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks.

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Scalability

Scalability is the capability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

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Service-level agreement

A service-level agreement (SLA) is a commitment between a service provider and a client.

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Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

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Tail drop

Tail drop is a simple queue management algorithm used by network schedulers in network equipment to decide when to drop packets.

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Teletraffic engineering

Telecommunications traffic engineering, teletraffic engineering, or traffic engineering is the application of traffic engineering theory to telecommunications.

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Traffic classification

Traffic classification is an automated process which categorises computer network traffic according to various parameters (for example, based on port number or protocol) into a number of traffic classes.

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Traffic policing (communications)

In communications, traffic policing is the process of monitoring network traffic for compliance with a traffic contract and taking steps to enforce that contract.

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Traffic shaping

Traffic shaping is a bandwidth management technique used on computer networks which delays some or all datagrams to bring them into compliance with a desired traffic profile.

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Type of service

The type of service (ToS) field in the IPv4 header has had various purposes over the years, and has been defined in different ways by five RFCs.

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Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol (also voice over IP, VoIP or IP telephony) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

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Web traffic

Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a website.

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Weighted fair queueing

Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) is a network scheduler scheduling algorithm.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated_services

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