August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 50m
English
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DIFFSERV
The Differentiated Services Model (DiffServ) is under development by the Internet DiffServ Working Group. I refer you to [CLAR97][9] for the details of the model.
[9] [CLAR97].Clark, D. and Wroclawski, J. "An Approach to Service Allocation in the Internet," Draft-clark-diff-svc-alloc-00.txt.
The main ideas of DiffServ are to: (a) classify traffic at the boundaries of network, and (b) possibly condition this traffic at the boundaries. The classification operation entails the assignment of the traffic to behavioral aggregates. These behavioral aggregates are a collection of packets with common characteristics, as far as how they are identified and treated by the network. The classification operation in this network classifies the packets ...