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QoS overview
In data communications, Quality of Service (QoS) is the ability of a network to provide differentiated
service guarantees for diverse traffic in terms of bandwidth, delay, jitter, and drop rate.
Network resources are scarce. The contention for resources requires that QoS prioritize important traffic
flows over trivial ones. When making a QoS scheme, you must consider the characteristics of various
applications to balance the interests of diversified users and fully utilize network resources.
The following section describes some typical QoS service models and widely used mature QoS
techniques.
QoS service models
This section covers three typical QoS service models:
• Best-effort service model
• IntServ model
• DiffServ model
Best-effort service model
Best effort is a single service model and also the simplest service model. In the best effort service model,
the network does its best to deliver packets but does not guarantee delay or reliability.
The best-effort service model is the default model in the Internet and applies to most network applications.
It uses the first in first out (FIFO) queuing mechanism.
IntServ model
The integrated service (IntServ) model is a multiple-service model that can accommodate diverse QoS
requirements. It provides the most granularly differentiated QoS by identifying and guaranteeing definite
QoS for each data flow.
In the IntServ model, an application must request service from the network before it sends data. IntServ
signals the service request with the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). All nodes that receive the
request reserve resources as requested and maintain state information for the application flow.
The IntServ model demands high storage and processing capabilities, because it requires that all nodes
along the transmission path maintain resource state information for each flow. The model is suitable for
small-sized or edge networks, but not large-sized networks, for example, the core layer of the Internet,
where billions of flows are present.
DiffServ model
The differentiated service (DiffServ) model is a multiple-service model that can satisfy diverse QoS
requirements. It is easy to implement and extend. DiffServ does not signal the network to reserve
resources before sending data, as IntServ does.
All QoS techniques in this document are based on the DiffServ model.