Vlora Rexhepi

Resource Management in Diffserv (RMD): A Functionality and Performance Behavior Overview

The flexibility and the wide deployment of IP technologies have driven the development of IP-based solutions for wireless networks, like IP-based Radio Access Networks (RAN). These networks have different characteristics when compared to traditional IP networks, imposing very strict requirements on Quality of Service (QoS) solutions, such as fast dynamic resource reservation, simplicity, scalability, low cost, severe congestion handling and easy implementation. A new QoS framework, called Resource Management in Differentiated Services (RMD), aims to satisfy these requirements. RMD has been introduced in recent publications. It extends the IETF Differentiated Services (Diffserv) architecture with new admission control and resource reservation concepts in a scalable way. This paper gives an overview of the RMD functionality and its performance behavior. Furthermore, it shows that the mean processing delay of RMD signaling reservation messages is more than 1330 times smaller then the mean processing delay of RSVP signaling reservation messages.

Severe Congestion Handling with Resource Management in Diffserv on Demand

Quality of Service (QoS) for the Internet has been discussed for a long time without any major breakthrough. There are several reasons, the main one being the lack of a scalable, simple, fast and low cost QoS solution. A new QoS-framework, called resource management in differentiated services (RMD), aims to correct this situation. This framework has been published in recent papers and is extending the IETF differentiated services (diffserv) architecture with new admission control and resource reservation concepts in a scalable way. This paper focuses on proposing and investigating two resource reservation solutions on the problem of severe congestion situation within a diffserv-aware network utilizing an admission control scheme called Resource Mananagement in Diffserv (RMD). The different severe congestion solutions are compared using extensive simulation experiments.