Evaluation of quality of service of MPLS-DiffServ network's


Abstract in English

The desire to improve the overall performance of IP network leads to designing new QoS achitectures. The new Enhancement in providing quality of service (QoS) on the Internet is based on the Different Services (DiffServ). DiffServ divides traffic into small classes and allocates network resources on a per-class basis. In this architecture, packets are marked with different DiffServ code points (DSCP) at edge routers, and the priority for packets is given via the value of this field. On the other hand, MPLS is a fast forwarding mechanism that depends on Label's. The main advantage of MPLS is its support for traffic engineering which results in best utilization of network's resources like link capacity. The integration of using MPLS (as a forwarding mechanism) with DiffServ (as a QoS mechanism) offer high Quality of service especially for real time applications (such as VoIP, Video Conference). We evaluate the performance of MPLS-DiffServ networks in our research. We study QoS metrics as delay, variation of delay, upload response time, link utilization, packet loss for several kinds of traffic (Voice, Video, FTP) by using OPNET Simulator and we showed its superiority over MPLS network and pure IP ones. We compare our results with MPLS networks and pure IP ones. Our results showed superiority of MPLS-DiffServ over other kinds of networks. This is clear in decreasing delay ,delay variation, upload response time, queuing delay, reduction of lost packets and best utilization of link capacity.

References used

M. Tanvir and A. Said, "Decreasing Packet Loss for QoS Sensitive IP Traffic in DiffServ Enabled Network Using MPLS TE", International Symposium in Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2(2010). pp 789-793
F. Le-Faucheur, B. Davie, S. Davari, P. Vaananen, R. Krishnan, P. Cheval and J. Heinanen, "Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services", RFC 3270, May 2002
Dongli Zhang, Dan Ionescu: “QoS Performance Analysis in Deployment of DiffServ Aware MPLS Traffic Engineering". Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD) 2007. pp 963-967

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