
22 Chapter 2: Differentiated Services Architecture
Diffserv Architecture
The diffserv approach
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to providing QoS in networks employs a small, well-defined set of
building blocks from which you can build a variety of services. Its aim is to define the
differentiated services (DS) byte, the Type of Service (ToS) byte from the Internet Protocol
(IP) Version 4 header and the Traffic Class byte from IP Version 6, and mark the
standardized DS byte of the packet such that it receives a particular forwarding treatment,
or per-hop behavior (PHB), at each network node.
The diffserv architecture provides a framework
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within which service providers can offer ...