Table of Contents

 1     Introduction and Scope            
        1.1     Introduction      
        1.2     Scope 
 2     References   
 3     Abbreviations, acronyms and conventions          
        3.1     Abbreviations and acronyms        
        3.2     Conventions     
 4     Transfer capacity, capacity agreements, and the applicability of QoS classes             
 5     Network performance objectives            
        5.1     General discussion of QoS             
        5.2     Reference path for UNI to UNI QoS            
        5.3     Network QoS classes       
 6     Availability objectives              
 7     Achievement of the performance objectives       
 8     Concatenating network sections and their QoS values       
        8.1     Introduction      
        8.2     Composing UNI-UNI values         
        8.3     Impairment accumulation procedures        
 9     Security        
Appendix I – ATM network QoS support of IP QoS    
Appendix II – IP delay variation parameter definition considerations    
Appendix III – Example hypothetical reference paths for validating the IP performance objectives    
      III.1     Number IP nodes in the HRP        
      III.2     Example computations to support end-end class 0 and class 1 delay 
      III.3     Example end-end class 1 delay computation           
      III.4     Example computations to support end-end class 4 delay      
      III.5     Loading within the HRP
      III.6     Geostationary satellites within the HRP     
Appendix IV – Example calculations of IP packet delay variation    
       IV.1     Contributors to IP packet delay variation 
       IV.2     Models and calculation procedures to establish an upper bound to the IPDV   
       IV.3     Calculation examples    
Appendix V – Material relevant to IP performance measurement methods    
Appendix VI – Applicability of the Y.1221 transfer capabilities and IETF differentiated services to IP QoS classes    
Appendix VII – Effects of network QoS on end-to-end speech transmission performance as perceived by the user    
      VII.1     Example VoIP calculations with ITU-T Y.1541 class 0 network performance 
      VII.2     Example VoIP calculations with ITU-T Y.1541 class 1 network performance 
      VII.3     Speech quality calculations for ITU-T Y.1541 hypothetical reference paths    
Appendix VIII – Effects of IP network performance on digital television transmission QoS    
     VIII.1     Introduction   
     VIII.2     Hypothetical reference endpoint (HRE) for high-bandwidth video signals       
     VIII.3     Service profiles and end-to-end packet performance requirements    
     VIII.4     Forward error correction (FEC)/Interleaving to improve UNI-UNI performance             
     VIII.5     Laboratory assessment of forward error correction (FEC)/Interleaving effectiveness    
     VIII.6     Additional performance parameters         
     VIII.7     Further analysis with advanced FEC schemes        
     VIII.8     Analysis of retransmission schemes          
     VIII.9     Recovery from errors and losses due to protection switching schemes              
Appendix IX – Effects of network QoS on end-to-end data transmission performance using TCP    
       IX.1     Introduction    
       IX.2     Model of TCP performance         
       IX.3     TCP hypothetical reference endpoint (HRE)            
       IX.4     Observations   
       IX.5     Summary of TCP capacity estimates        
Appendix X – An example showing how to calculate IPDV across multiple sections     
        X.1     Calculation of delay variation     
        X.2     Mathematical background           
        X.3     Special cases    
        X.4     Estimating skewness from quantiles           
Appendix XI – Digital circuit (ISDN) emulation requirements on IP-based networks     
       XI.1     Introduction    
       XI.2     Packetization and transport assumptions 
       XI.3     Range of packet loss requirements             
       XI.4     Effect of forward error correction               
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