Um estudo sobre a obtenção de qualidade de serviço Fim-a-Fim em redes IP com Diffserv e engenharia de tráfego baseada em MPLS

Abstract

Currently, the Internet provides only best-effort Service that treats packets equally, and recently new kinds of distributed applications, like Internet telephony, video conferencing, video-on-demand have been developed which are sensitive to the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) received from the network. Such applications demand limits in the de-lay, jitter and packet loss. The DiffServ model when combined with Traffic Engineering can provide a suitable architecture for ensuring end-to-end QoS guarantees to several kinds of applications. MPLS is emerging to be the choice for the core network applying multi-service networks, and providing Traffic Engineering. In this work, the following environment is considered: in the network edge, the packets are classified in sub-classes of traffic defined by the DiffServ, with different types of delay, jitter and throughput characteristics. In the MPLS backbone, these sub-classes of traffic are mapped in the different Labei Switched Paths (LSPs). This work proposes to show through modelling and simulation, Traffic Engineering over MPLS combined with DiffServ guarantees, the limits required by multimedia applications to the parameters of traffic and QoS.