Deploying IP and MPLS QoS for Multiservice Networks

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Preface
5. Acknowledgments
6. About the Authors
7. Table of Contents
8. Chapter 1: QOS Requirements and Service Level Agreements
   1. 1.1 Introduction
   2. 1.2 SLA Metrics
   3. 1.3 Application SLA Requirements
   4. 1.4 Marketed SLAs versus Engineered SLAs
   5. 1.5 Intserv and Diffserv SLAs
   6. References
9. Chapter 2: Introduction to QOS Mechanics and Architectures
   1. 2.1 What is Quality of Service?
   2. 2.2 Data Plane QOS Mechanisms
   3. 2.3 IP QOS Architectures
   4. 2.4 Typical Router QOS Implementations in Practice
   5. 2.5 Layer 2 QOS
   6. 2.6 Complementary Technologies
   7. 2.7 Where QOS cannot make a difference
   8. References
   9. Appendix 2.A: Precedence, TOS, and DSCP Conversion
10. Chapter 3: Deploying Diffserv
    1. 3.1 Introduction
    2. 3.2 Deploying Diffserv at the Network Edge
    3. 3.3 Deploying Diffserv in the Network Backbone
    4. 3.4 Tuning (W)RED
    5. References
11. Chapter 4: Capacity Admission Control
    1. 4.1 Introduction
    2. 4.2 Topology-unaware Off-path CAC
    3. 4.3 Topology-aware Off-path CAC: “Bandwidth Manager”
    4. 4.4 The Integrated Services Architecture/RSVP
    5. 4.5 NSIS
    6. 4.6 End-system Measurement-based Admission Control
    7. 4.7 Summary
    8. References
12. Chapter 5: SLA and Network Monitoring
    1. 5.1 Introduction
    2. 5.2 Passive Network Monitoring
    3. 5.3 Active Network Monitoring
    4. References
13. Chapter 6: Core Capacity Planning and Traffic Engineering
    1. 6.1 Core Network Capacity Planning
    2. 6.2 IP Traffic Engineering
    3. References
14. Index