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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