Performance of FAN conception of traffic control in IP QoS networks

In this paper we present the architectural implementation of flow aware networking (FAN), a new approach for realizing QoS guarantees in the Internet. We also propose FAN traffic control algorithm which performs traffic control on flow level. Using the proposed FAN node model, we conduct simulation research to prove if FAN can be a new approach for realizing QoS guarantees. The basis of this research is finding a way to guarantee quality of service at flow level with the main goal to find the bandwidth threshold which allows fair traffic differentiation.