Quality of Service: Delivering QoS on the Internet and in Corporate
Networks
Paul Ferguson & Geoff Huston
This page is intended to provide
updated information related to QoS, including updates on bibliography
information in the book, new white papers, emerging technologies, and
other QoS-related tidbits. Additional items and updates will be posted
here as they become available.
Bibliography updates:
- [ID1996h]
IETF Internet Draft, "RSRR: A Routing Interface For RSVP,"
draft-ietf-rsvp-routing-01.txt,
D. Zappala, November 1996 has been updated. The updated draft
is "RSRR A Routing Interface For RSVP," draft-ietf-rsvp-routing-02.txt,
D. Zappala, J. Kann, July 1998.
- [ID1997j]
IETF Internet Draft, "Providing Integrated Services over
Low-Bitrate Links," draft-ietf-issll-isslow-02.txt,
C. Bormann, May 1997 has been updated. The updated draft is "Providing
integrated services over low-bitrate links," draft-ietf-issll-isslow-04.txt,
C. Bormann, August 1998.
- [ID1997i]
IETF Internet Draft, "RSVP Extensions for Policy Control,"
draft-ietf-rsvp-policy-ext-02.txt,
S. Herzog, April 1997 has been updated. The updated draft is
"RSVP Extensions for Policy Control," draft-ietf-rap-rsvp-ext-00.txt,
S. Herzog, March 1998.
- [ID1997u]
IETF Internet Draft, "QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF Extensions,"
draft-guerin-qos-routing-ospf-01.txt, R. Guerin, S. Kamat, A. Orda,
T. Przygienda, D. Williams, March 1997 has been updated. The
updated draft is "QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF Extensions,"
draft-guerin-qos-routing-ospf-03.txt,
R. Guerin, D. Williams, T. Przygienda, S. Kamat, A. Orda, March 1998.
- [IRTFa]
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Draft, "Recommendations
on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet,"
draft-irtf-e2e-queue-mgt-00.txt,
R. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V.
Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S.
Shenkar, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang, March 1997 has been updated.
The draft has been advanced as IETF Informational RFC2309,
"Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in
the Internet," R. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie,
S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge,
L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenkar, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang, April
1998.
- [ID1997m]
IETF Internet Draft, "A Framework for Integrated Services and
RSVP over ATM," draft-ietf-issll-atm-framework-00.txt, E. Crawley,
L. Berger, S. Berson, F. Baker, M. Borden, J. Krawczyk, July 1997 has
been updated and published as RFC2382,
"A Framework for
Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM," F. Baker, M. Borden,
J. Krawczyk, L. Berger, S. Berson, E. Crawley, August 1998.
- [ID1997a1]
IETF Internet Draft, "Layer Two Tunneling Protocol �L2TP�,"
draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-04.txt,
K. Hamzeh, T. Kolar, M. Littlewood, G. Singh Pall, J. Taarud, A. Valencia,
W. Verthein, June 1997 has been updated. The updated draft is
"Layer Two Tunneling Protocol �L2TP�," draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-11.txt,
A. Rubens, W. Palter, T. Kolar, G. Pall, M. Littlewood, A. Valencia,
K. Hamzeh, W. Verthein, J. Taarud, W. Townsley, May 1998.
- [ID1996f]
IETF Internet Draft, "QoS Extensions to OSPF," draft-zhang-qos-ospf-00.txt,
Z. Zhang, C. Sanchez, B. Salkewicz, E. Crawley, June 1996 has been
updated. The updated draft is "Quality of Service Extensions
to OSPF or Quality Of Service Path First Routing (QOSPF)," draft-zhang-qos-ospf-01.txt,
Z. Zhang, C. Sanchez, B. Salkewicz, E. Crawley, September 1997.
- [ID1997n]
IETF Internet Draft, "Issues for Integrated Services and
RSVP over ATM," draft-ietf-issll-isatm-issues-00.txt,
E. Crawley, L. Berger, S. Berson, F. Baker, M. Borden, J. Krawczyk,
July 1997 has been replaced by and published as RFC2379,
"RSVP over ATM
Implementation Guidelines," L. Berger, August 1998. Also see
RFC2380, "RSVP
over ATM Implementation Requirements," L. Berger, August 1998.
- [ID1997a3]
IETF Internet Draft, "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification,"
draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-spec-v2-00.txt, S. Deering, R. Hinden, July
1997 has been updated. The updated draft is "Internet Protocol,
Version 6 (IPv6) Specification," draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-spec-v2-01.txt,
S. Deering, R. Hinden, November 1997.
- [ID1997k]
IETF Internet Draft, "Network Element Service Specification for
Low Speed Networks,"
draft-ietf-issll-isslow-svcmap-00.txt, S. Jackowski, May 1997 has
been updated. The updated draft is "Network Element Service
Specification for Low Speed Networks," draft-ietf-issll-isslow-svcmap-02.txt,
S. Jackowski, D. Putzolu, July 1998.
- [ID1997s]
IETF Internet Draft, "Integrated Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks,"
draft-ietf-issll-is802-svc-mapping-00.txt, M. Seaman, A. Smith, E. Crawley,
July 1997 has been updated. The updated draft is "Integrated
Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks," draft-ietf-issll-is802-svc-mapping-02.txt,
M. Seaman, A. Smith, E. Crawley, August 1998.
- [ID1997t]
IETF Internet Draft, "A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the
Internet,"
draft-ietf-qosr-framework-01.txt, E. Crawley, R. Nair, B. Rajagopalan,
H. Sandick, July 1997 has been updated and published as RFC2386,
"A Framework for
QoS-based Routing in the Internet," R. Nair, B. Rajagopalan,
H. Sandick, E. Crawley, August 1998.
- [ID1997q]
IETF Internet Draft, "A Framework for Providing Integrated Services
Over Shared Media and Switched LAN Technologies,"
draft-ietf-issll-is802-framework-02.txt, A. Ghanwani, J.W. Pace, V.
Srinivasan, May 1997 has been updated. The updated draft is "A
Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched
IEEE 802 LAN Technologies," draft-ietf-issll-is802-framework-05.txt,
M. Seaman, A. Smith, V. Srinivasan, W. Pace, A. Ghanwani, May 1998.
- [ID1997r]
IETF Internet Draft, "SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal
for Admission Control over IEEE 802-style networks,"
draft-ietf-issll-is802-sbm-04.txt, R. Yavatkar, D. Hoffman, Y. Bernet,
F. Baker, July 1997 has been updated. The updated draft is "SBM
(Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Proposal for Admission Control over IEEE
802-style networks," draft-ietf-issll-is802-bm-06.txt,
R. Yavatkar, F. Baker, D. Hoffman, Y. Bernet, March 1998.
- [ID1997o]
IETF Internet Draft, "Interoperation of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed
Services with ATM,"
draft-ietf-issll-atm-mapping-02.txt, M. Garrett, M. Borden, March 1997
has been updated and published as RFC2381,
"Interoperation
of Controlled-Load and Guaranteed-Service with ATM," M. Borden,
M. Garrett, August 1998.
Other QoS-related links
IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) QoS efforts:
Other QoS-related IETF Internet Drafts (I-D's):
- "Aggregation
of Internet Integrated Services State," draft-berson-rsvp-aggregation-00.txt,.ps,
S. Berson, S. Vincent, August 1998.
- "COPS
Usage for Differentiated Services," COPS Usage for Differentiated
Services, R. Yavatkar, K. McCloghrie, S. Herzog, F. Reichmeyer, D. Durham,
K. Chan, S. Gai, August 1998.
- "An
Expedited Forwarding PHB," draft-ietf-diffserv-phb-ef-00.txt,
V. Jacobson, K. Nichols, K. Poduri, August 1998. A .pdf version of this
document is available at ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/ef_phb.pdf
- "Terminology
for describing network policy and services," draft-strassner-policy-terms-00.txt,
E. Ellesson, J. Strassner, August 1998.
- "Management
of PHBs," draft-ietf-diffserv-phb-mgmt-00.txt, M. Borden, C.
White, August 1998.
- "Assured
Forwarding PHB Group," draft-heinanen-diffserv-af-00.txt, J.
Heinanen, August 1998.
- "End-to-end
QoS provisioning mechanism for Differentiated Services," draft-borgonovo-qos-ds-00.txt,
L. Fratta, F. Borgonovo, A. Capone, M. Marchese, C. Petrioli, July 1998.
- "Requirements
of Diff-serv Boundary Routers," draft-bernet-diffedge-00.txt,
Y. Bernet, July 1998.
- "A
Framework for Use of RSVP with Diff-serv Networks," draft-ietf-diffserv-rsvp-00.txt,
L. Zhang, R. Yavatkar, F. Baker, P. Ford, K. Nichols, M. Speer, Y. Bernet,
June 1998.
- "Class-Based
Service Differentiation," draft-dovrolis-cbsd-00.txt, C. Dvorolis,
June 1998.
- "Drop
Preference Services," draft-feng-dp-services-00.txt, W. Feng,
June 1998.
- "A
Framework for Differentiated Services," draft-ietf-diffserv-framework-00.txt,
D. Verma, M. Carlson, B. Ohlman, S. Blake, Y. Bernet, J. Binder, Z.
Wang, W. Weiss, E. Davies, June 1998.
- "DIAMETER
QoS Extension," draft-calhoun-diameter-qos-00.txt, M. Speer,
K. Peirce, P. Calhoun, May 1998.
- "An
Architecture for Differentiated Services," draft-ietf-diffserv-arch-01.txt,
M. Carlson, W. Weiss, S. Blake, Z. Wang, D. Black, E. Davies, August
1998.
- "Definition
of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Byte) in the IPv4 and IPv6
Headers," draft-ietf-diffserv-header-02.txt, F. Baker, K. Nichols,
S. Blake, D. Black, August 1998.
- "Designing
QoSMIC: A Quality of Service sensitive Multicast Internet protoCol,"
draft-banerjea-qosmic-00.txt, A. Banerjea, M. Faloutsos, R. Pankaj,
May 1998.
- "IP
Precedence in Differentiated Services Using the Assured Service,"
draft-ietf-diffserv-precedence-00.txt, F. Baker, S. Brim, T. Li, F.
Kastenholz, S. Jagannath, J. Renwick, April 1998.
- "A
Framework for End-to-End QoS Combining RSVP/Intserv and Differentiated
Services," draft-bernet-intdiff-00.txt, L. Zhang, R. Yavatkar,
F. Baker, P. Ford, Y. Bernet, March 1998.
- "The
Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP," draft-ietf-issll-isslow-mcml-04.txt,
C. Bormann, August 1998.
- "Providing
Differentiated Services through Cooperative Dropping and Delay Indication,"
draft-weiss-cooperative-drop-00.txt, W. Weiss, March 1998.
- "User
Identity Representation for RSVP," draft-ietf-rap-user-identity-00.txt,
P. Ford, S. Herzog, R. Pabbati, S. Yadav, March 1998.
- "Integrated
Services Over Differentiated Services," draft-ford-issll-diff-svc-00.txt,
P. Ford, Y. Bernet, March 1998.
- "A
One-bit Feedback Enhanced Differentiated Services Architecture,"
draft-shivkuma-ecn-diffserv-01.txt, S. Kalyanaraman, S. Arora, K. Wanglee,
G. Guarriello, D. Harrison, April 1998.
- "Differentiated
Services over Symmetric NHRP Shortcuts," draft-turner-diff-nhrp-00.txt,
B. Staegemeir, S. Turner, March 1998.
- "Schema
for Service Level Administration of Differentiated Services and Integrated
Services in Networks," draft-ellesson-sla-schema-00.txt, E.
Ellesson, S. Kamat, R. Rajan, D. Verma, February 1998.
- "Differentiated
Services Operational Model and Definitions," draft-nichols-dsopdef-00.txt,
K. Nichols, S. Blake, February 1998.
- "Architecture
of the Resource Reservation Service for the Commercial Internet,"
draft-rfced-info-suzuki-00.txt, M. Suzuki, February 1998.
- "Layer
Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' IP Differential Services Extension,"
draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-ds-02.txt, K. Peirce, P. Calhoun, July 1998.
- "The
COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol," draft-ietf-rap-cops-02.txt,
S. Herzog, A. Sastry, R. Rajan, R. Cohen, J. Boyle, D. Durham, August
1998.
- "Provider
Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (PASTE),"
draft-li-paste-00.txt, T. Li, Y. Rekhter, January 1998.
- "Some
Issues and Applications of Packet Marking for Differentiated Services,"
draft-blake-diffserv-marking-00.txt, S. Blake, December 1997.
- "Use
of the IPv4 TOS Octet to Support Differential Services," draft-heinanen-diff-tos-octet-01.txt,
J. Heinanen, November 1997.
- "Simple
Differential Services: IP TOS and Precedence, Delay Indication, and
Drop Preference," draft-ferguson-delay-drop-02.txt, P. Ferguson,
March 1998.
- "Internet
Protocol Quality of Service Problem Statement," draft-bradner-qos-problem-00.txt,
S. Bradner, Sptember 1997.
- "A
Proposal for the Format and Semantics of the TOS Byte and Traffic Class
Byte in IPv4 and IPv6 Headers," draft-ellesson-tos-00.txt,
Ed Ellesson, Steven Blake, November 1997.
- "User-Share
Differentiation (USD) Scalable bandwidth allocation for differentiated
services," draft-wang-diff-serv-usd-00.txt, Z. Wang, November
1997.
- "A
Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet,"
draft-nichols-diff-svc-arch-00.txt, Kathleen Nichols, Van Jacobson,
Lixia Zhang, November 1997. The complete version of this document, including
its figures, is at ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/papers/dsarch.pdf
(Adobe Acrobat format).
- "Heuristics
for utilizing ISSL Mechanisms for A/V Streams Over Low Bandwidth Links
in the absence of Announcement Protocols," draft-putzolu-heuristic-00.txt,
D. Putzolu, December 1997.
- "Aggregation
of Internet Integrated Services State," draft-berson-classy-approach-01.txt,
S. Berson, S. Vincent, December 1997.
- "Aggregating
RSVP-based QoS Requests," draft-guerin-aggreg-rsvp-00.txt,
R. Guerin, S. Blake, S. Herzog, December 1997.
- "Staged
Refresh Timers for RSVP," draft-pan-rsvp-timer-00.txt, R. Guerin,
H. Schulzrinne, P. Pan, December 1997.
- "RSVP
Diagnostic Messages," draft-ietf-rsvp-diagnostic-msgs-03.txt,
L. Zhang, A. Terzis, December 1997.
Congestion avoidance and congestion management:
- "Modeling TCP Throughput:
A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation," Jitendra Padhye,
Victor Firoiu, Don Towsley and Jim Kurose. Submitted to ACM SIGCOMM
98, February 1998. Abstract,
PostScript,
Adobe
Acrobat.
- "The
Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance," V. N. Padmanabhan,
H. Balakrishnan, R. H. Katz, 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 1997.
- RFC2001,
"TCP Slow Start, Congestion Avoidance, Fast Retransmit, and Fast
Recovery Algorithms," W. Stevens, January 1997.
- RFC2018,
"TCP Selective Acknowledgment Options," M. Mathis, J. Mahdavi,
S. Floyd, A. Romanow, October 1996.
- References
on RED (Random Early Detection) Gateways. Sally Floyd's (Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory) RED page.
- Dynamics
of Random Early Detection, Dong Lin and Robert Morris (Harvard University),
a proposal & overview of Fair Random Early Drop (FRED). Presented
at ACM SIGCOMM 1997.
- "Forward
Acknowledgement: Refining TCP Congestion Control," M. Mathis,
J. Mahdavi, Proceedings of SIGCOMM'96, August 1996, Stanford, CA.
- Network
Congestion Control, Greg Sternberg and Jon Boone (University of
Pennsylvania), April 1997.
- Papers
related to congestion avaoidance & congestion management by
the PSC (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center) Networking Group.
- Explicit Congestion
Notification (ECN): A proposal,
and accompanying
information, from Sally Floyd. Also, "A
proposal for Backward ECN for the Internet Protocol (IPv4/IPv6),"
draft-salim-jhsbnns-ecn-00.txt, B. Nandy, N. Seddigh, J. Salim, June
1998.
Queuing and scheduling:
Packet Marking Gateways:
- Simulation
Results for Adaptive Packet Marking: "Adaptive Packet Marking
for Providing Differentiated Services in the Internet," W. Feng,
D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, October 1997, and "An Adaptive Approach
for Providing Differentiated Services in the Internet," W. Feng,
D. Kandlur, D. Saha, K. Shin, January 1998.
Economics and the Internet:
- Dynamic
Capacity Contracting: A Framework for Pricing the Differentiated Services
Internet, S. Kalyanaraman, T. Ravichandran, R. Norsworthy, May 1998.
Submitted to First International Conference on Information and Computation
Economics, May 1998.
- The
Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property
and Related Issues. A collection of papers authored by Hal Varian
(University of California at Berkeley).
- PIARA: Pricing for Internet
Addresses and Route Advertisements. "Financial
Incentives for Route Aggregation and Efficient Address Utilization in
the Internet," Paul Resnick, Yakov Rekhter, Steve Bellovin.
Proceedings of the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference,
Solomons, MD.
QoS-related events & conferences:
QoS & the trade press:
- Internet
2000: Highway to the horizon, 23 Oct. 97 apcmag.com article on QoS,
among other things.
- IETF
sees a future for a reliable Internet, November 1997, LAN Times
Online.
- Internet
Telephony: Calling All Packets, 29 Dec. 97, Wired News.
- QoS
Key To Internet's Future, 31 Dec. 97, InternetWeek.
- VPN's
Poised For Takeoff, 3 Jan. 98, InternetWeek.
- ISP's
face high churn rates, 5 Feb. 98, CNET News.com.
Potpourri:
- Andrew Campbell: QoS
paper collection. Several papers on QoS by Campbell.
- "Quality of Service
in the Internet: Fact, Fiction, or Compromise?" Paper submitted
for presentation at INET'98,
July 21-24, Geneva, Switzerland. Authors: Paul Ferguson & Geoff
Huston. Windows'95
ZIP Word, postscript,
or HTML
format.
Additional items will be added
to this page as they become available.
Questions, comments, concerns,
or kudos can be directed to either Paul
Ferguson or Geoff Huston.
Thanks for the interest!
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