End-user traffic policing for QoS assurance in polyservice RINA networks

Sergio Leon Gaixas (), Jordi Perelló, Davide Careglio, Eduard Grasa and Miquel Tarzán
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Sergio Leon Gaixas: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Jordi Perelló: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Davide Careglio: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Eduard Grasa: Fundació Privada i2CAT
Miquel Tarzán: Fundació Privada i2CAT

Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management, 2019, vol. 70, issue 3, No 4, 365-377

Abstract: Abstract Looking at the ever-increasing amount of heterogeneous distributed applications supported on current data transport networks, it seems evident that best-effort packet delivery falls short to supply their actual needs. Multiple approaches to Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation have been proposed over the years, but their usage has always been hindered by the rigidness of the TCP/IP-based Internet model, which does not even allow for applications to express their QoS needs to the underlying network. In this context, the Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA) has appeared as a clean-slate network architecture aiming to replace the current Internet based on TCP/IP. RINA provides a well-defined QoS support across layers, with standard means for layers to inform of the different QoS guarantees that they can support. Besides, applications and other processes can express their flow requirements, including different QoS-related measures, like delay and jitter, drop probability or average traffic usage. Greedy end-users, however, tend to request the highest quality for their flows, forcing providers to apply intelligent data rate limitation procedures at the edge of their networks. In this work, we propose a new rate limiting policy that, instead of enforcing limits on a per QoS class basis, imposes limits on several independent QoS dimensions. This offers a flexible traffic control to RINA network providers, while enabling end-users freely managing their leased resources. The performance of the proposed policy is assessed in an experimental RINA network test-bed and its performance compared against other policies, either RINA-specific or adopted from TCP/IP. Results show that the proposed policy achieves an effective traffic control for high QoS traffic classes, while also letting lower QoS classes to take profit of the capacity initially reserved for the former ones when available.

Keywords: Internet; RINA; QoS; ΔQ; Traffic policing; Network management; End-user (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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