Abstract :
The concept of quality of service-that is, the network capability to provide a nondefault service to a subset of the aggregate traffic-has now entered the IP lexicon. The author surveys the history of this development from the Internet´s original passenger-class-only, best-effort protocol suite. He concludes with a review of the current Internet Engineering Task Force´s efforts in the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) working group
Keywords :
Internet; quality of service; transport protocols; DiffServ working group; Differentiated Services working group; IP QOS; Internet; Internet Engineering Task Force; aggregate traffic; best-effort protocol suite; history; nondefault service; passenger-class-only suite; quality of service; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Information filtering; Information filters; Internet; Protocols; Scheduling algorithm; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
