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Towards Provisioning Diffserv Intra-Nets

2001; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/3-540-45512-4_4

1611-3349

U. Fiedler, Polly Huang, Bernhard Plattner,

Mobile Agent-Based Network Management

The question of our study is how to provision a diffserv (differentiated service) intra-net serving three classes of traffic, i.e., voice, real-time data (e.g. stock quotes), and best-effort data. Each class of traffic requires a different level of QoS (Quality of Service) guarantee. For VoIP the primary QoS requirements are delay and loss; for realtime data response-time. Given a network configuration and anticipated workload of a business intra-net, we use ns-2 simulations to determine the minimum capacity requirements that dominate total cost of the intranet. To ensure that it is worthwhile converging different traffic classes or deploying diffserv, we cautiously examine capacity requirements in three sets of experiments: three traffic classes in i) three dedicated networks, ii) one network without diffserv support , and iii) one network with diffserv support. We find that for the business intra-net of our study, integration without diffserv may need considerable over-provisioning depending on the fraction of real-time data in the network. In addition, we observe significant capacity savings in the diffserv case; thus conclude that deploying diffserv is advantageous. The relations we find give rise to, as far as we know, the first rule of thumb on provisioning a diffserv network for increasing real-time data.