A platform-independent API for quality of service management

Author

Stattenberger, Gunther ; Braun, Torsten ; Brunner, Marcus

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci. & Appl. Math., Bern Univ., Switzerland

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

255

Lastpage

259

Abstract

The differentiated services approach to QoS in the Internet poses new challenges on the configuration and service provisioning side. The approach relies on an entity often referred to as a bandwidth broker. It configures the network elements so that guaranteed networking services are provided to customers. However, the DiffServ capable routers have a large variety of hardware configurations and different configuration interfaces (e.g. SNMP, CORBA, CLI). Therefore, we propose a QoS management API which is used by bandwidth broker implementations in order to configure the underlying routers. In our prototype we implemented a proprietary configuration interface to our Linux-based DiffServ router implementation

Keywords

Internet; Unix; application program interfaces; computer network management; network interfaces; object-oriented methods; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; CLI; CORBA; Internet; Linux-based DiffServ router implementation; QoS management API; SNMP; bandwidth broker; configuration interfaces; differentiated services; guaranteed networking services; hardware configurations; heterogenous network; homogenous virtual network; network elements configuration; network interfaces; object oriented QoS management system; platform-independent API; proprietary configuration interface; quality of service management; router configuration; service provisioning; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer science; Diffserv networks; Hardware; Laboratories; Laser sintering; Mathematics; Quality management; Quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Switching and Routing, 2001 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6711-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPSR.2001.923642

Filename

923642