Qos Overview; Introduction To Qos; Introduction To Qos Service Models; Best-Effort Service Model - HP 4800G Series Configuration Manual

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QoS Overview

This chapter covers the following topics:

QoS Techniques Overview

Introduction to QoS

For network traffic, the Quality of Service (QoS) involves bandwidth, delay, and packet loss rate during

traffic forwarding process. In a network, you can improve the QoS by guaranteeing the bandwidth, and

reducing the delay, jitter, and packet loss rate.

The network resources are always scarce. QoS requirements exist on any occasion where traffic flows

contend for network resources. QoS is a relative concept for traffic flows, that is, guaranteeing QoS for

a certain traffic flow may damage QoS of other traffic flows. For example, in the case of fixed bandwidth,

if a traffic flow gets more bandwidth, the other traffic flows will get less bandwidth and may be affected.

Therefore, the network administrator should reasonably plan and allocate network resources based on

the characteristics of various traffic flows, thus utilizing the network resources effectively.

The following part introduces the QoS service models, and some mature QoS techniques used most

widely. Using these techniques reasonably in the specific environments, you can improve the QoS

effectively.

Introduction to QoS Service Models

This section covers three typical QoS service models:

Best-effort service

Integrated service (IntServ)

Differentiated service (DiffServ)

Best effort is a single service model and also the simplest service model. In the best effort service model,

the network delivers the packets at its best effort but does not guarantee delay or reliability.

The best-effort service model is the default model in the Internet and is applicable to most network

applications. It is implemented through FIFO queuing.

IntServ is a multiple services model that can accommodate multiple QoS requirements. In this model,

an application must request a specific kind of service from the network before it can send data. The

request is made by RSVP signaling. RSVP runs on each device from the source end to the destination

end, and monitors each data flow to prevent each data flow from consuming more resources than the

requested, reserved, and pre-purchased resources. The Inter-Serv model can definitely identify and

guarantee QoS for each data flow, and provides the most granularly differentiated QoS.

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