CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     References
        2.1     Normative references
        2.2     Informative references
 3     Terms and definitions
 4     Abbreviations, acronyms and conventions
        4.1     Abbreviations and acronyms
        4.2     Conventions
 5     Introduction
        5.1     Solution requirements
        5.2     Requirements phasing
        5.3     General objectives
 6     Network model
 7     Diffserv usage in backbone
        7.1     Media traffic
        7.2     Signalling traffic
        7.3     PHB selection and DSCP setting
        7.4     PHB support by AN
        7.5     Resource allocation
        7.6     Admission control
 8     Admission control for a single domain
        8.1     Per-flow RSVP control plane
                  8.1.1     AN behaviour
                  8.1.2     Location of Diffserv edge
                  8.1.3     Edge router behaviour
                  8.1.4     Other terminating devices (media gateways, anonymizers, announcement servers, conference bridges)
                  8.1.5     Core router behaviour
                  8.1.6     Signalling latency
                  8.1.7     Pre-emption
        8.2     Aggregate RSVP
                  8.2.1     Provisioned aggregate reservations
                  8.2.2     Dynamic aggregate reservations
                  8.2.3     Hierarchical aggregation
                  8.2.4     Location of aggregation points and DiffServ edge
        8.3     Bandwidth broker
 9     Admission control over multiple domains
10     Use of MPLS
11     Queuing and filtering
       11.1     Queuing
       11.2     Filtering
Appendix I – Call flow examples
Appendix II – Bibliography