Title :
A platform-independent API for quality of service management
Author :
Stattenberger, Gunther ; Braun, Torsten ; Brunner, Marcus
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci. & Appl. Math., Bern Univ., Switzerland
Abstract :
The differentiated services approach to QoS in the Internet poses new challenges on the configuration and service provisioning side. The approach relies on an entity often referred to as a bandwidth broker. It configures the network elements so that guaranteed networking services are provided to customers. However, the DiffServ capable routers have a large variety of hardware configurations and different configuration interfaces (e.g. SNMP, CORBA, CLI). Therefore, we propose a QoS management API which is used by bandwidth broker implementations in order to configure the underlying routers. In our prototype we implemented a proprietary configuration interface to our Linux-based DiffServ router implementation
Keywords :
Internet; Unix; application program interfaces; computer network management; network interfaces; object-oriented methods; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; CLI; CORBA; Internet; Linux-based DiffServ router implementation; QoS management API; SNMP; bandwidth broker; configuration interfaces; differentiated services; guaranteed networking services; hardware configurations; heterogenous network; homogenous virtual network; network elements configuration; network interfaces; object oriented QoS management system; platform-independent API; proprietary configuration interface; quality of service management; router configuration; service provisioning; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer science; Diffserv networks; Hardware; Laboratories; Laser sintering; Mathematics; Quality management; Quality of service;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Switching and Routing, 2001 IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6711-1
DOI :
10.1109/HPSR.2001.923642
