CHAPTER 6 Packet Flow Handling
In the previous chapter, we dealt with the need to process packet content. Of similar importance, we have to manage the packet flow in the network. Moreover, very often we have to consider packet flows in designing equipment, in order to make the equipment function.
In this chapter, we address various aspects of packet flows, traffic management, buffers queueing, and other issues that impact equipment design and component functioning, as well as networking issues and functioning. The chapter is divided into two main parts: (1) Quality of Service (QoS) and related definitions, and (2) QoS control mechanisms, algorithms, and methods.
Handling packet flows is a key issue in providing services over the network. Not ...
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