Summary

With the advent of the Net as a profitable business area, the need to provide quality of service to clients has become an essential component to run successful Web-based businesses. However, the existing IP data transmission model was unable to cope with the changing nature of data that needs to be transmitted. Therefore, a new transmission model called Quality of Service was proposed. QoS assures the required data transmission environment to provide reliable, real-time transmission of data.

QoS can be implemented using the RSVP or differentiated services transmission mode. RSVP implements QoS by reserving network resources on participating routers. Differentiated services provide an assured service or a premium service based on the ...

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