IP quality of service : [the complete resource for understanding and deploying IP quality of service for cisco networks) / Srinivas Vegesna.

Includes bibliographical references and index

IP QoS -- Introducing IP Quality of Service -- Levels of QoS -- IP QoS History -- Performance Measures -- Bandwidth -- Packet Delay and Jitter -- Packet Loss -- QoS Functions -- Packet Classifier and Marker -- Traffic Rate Management -- Resource Allocation -- Congestion Avoidance and Packet Drop Policy -- QoS Signaling Protocol -- Switching -- Routing -- Layer 2 QoS Technologies -- Multiprotocol Label Switching -- End-to-End QoS -- Audience -- Scope and Limitations -- Organization -- Differentiated Services Architecture -- Intserv Architecture -- Diffserv Architecture -- Network Boundary Traffic Conditioners -- PHB -- Resource Allocation Policy -- Network Boundary Traffic Conditioners: Packet Classifier, Marker, and Traffic Rate Management -- Packet Classification -- Packet Marking -- IP Precedence -- DSCP -- The QoS Group -- Packet Classification and Marking Using IP Precedence -- Packet Classification and Marking Using QoS Groups -- Enforcing IP Precedence Setting -- The Need for Traffic Rate Management -- The Token Bucket Scheme -- Traffic Policing -- Limiting a Particular Application's Traffic Rate at a Service Level -- Limiting Traffic Based on IP Precedence Values -- Subrate IP Services -- Web Hosting Services -- Preventing Denial-of-Service Attacks -- Enforcing Public Exchange Point Traffic -- Traffic Shaping -- Traffic Measuring Instrumentation -- Shaping Traffic to the Access Rate -- Shaping Incoming and Outgoing Traffic for a Host to a Certain Mean Rate -- Shaping Frame Relay Traffic on Receipt of BECNs