Abstract: With increasing number of mission critical applications and associated traffic volume on commercial and DoD IP networks, it is becoming increasingly critical for the network infrastructure to be more aware of the quality of service (in a broad sense of the word) requirements and use this awareness in routing, differential treatment of packets, in management-level resource provisioning and allocation. In this paper, we focus on the implication of these requirements on the routing architecture and protocols. In particular, we argue that the inter...
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Computer network
Distributed computing