CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References 
 3     Definitions  
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms        
 5     Introduction      
 6     QoS building blocks        
 7     Control-plane mechanisms           
        7.1     Admission control  
        7.2     QoS routing           
        7.3    Resource reservation         
 8     Data-plane mechanisms   
        8.1     Queue (or buffer) management       
        8.2     Congestion avoidance        
        8.3     Queuing and scheduling      
        8.4     Packet marking      
        8.5     Traffic classification
        8.6     Traffic policing       
        8.7     Traffic shaping       
 9     Management-plane mechanisms   
        9.1     Service level agreement      
        9.2     Traffic metering and recording        
        9.3     Traffic restoration  
        9.4     Policy     
10     Interactions among building blocks          
       10.1     QoS signalling       
       10.2     Intra-plane
       10.3     Inter-plane
11     Security considerations   
       11.1     Data plane
       11.2     Management and control plane      
       11.3     QoS Signalling      
12     Example approaches       
       12.1     IntServ  
       12.2     DiffServ 
       12.3     MPLS   
       12.4     IPCablecom dynamic QoS           
Annex A – Traffic priority levels    
Appendix I – A comprehensive QoS approach based on  independent resource control    
        I.1        Implementation flexibility for packet networks with MPLS support
        I.2        Implementation flexibility for packet networks without MPLS support       
        I.3        Implementation flexibility for distributed resource control   
Appendix II – Priority promotion scheme    
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