3rd International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom)

Research Article

Evaluation of a Policy-Based QoS Management Architecture over an IPv6 DiffServ testbed

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444697,
        author={Alex Vallejo and Agust\^{\i}n Zaballos and Jaume Abella and Guillermo Villegas and Josep M. Selga},
        title={Evaluation of a Policy-Based QoS Management Architecture over an IPv6 DiffServ testbed},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom)},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={2},
        keywords={IPv6; QoS; Differentiated-Services; Policy Based Networking Management; COPS-PR; SIBBS},
        doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444697}
    }
    
  • Alex Vallejo
    Agustín Zaballos
    Jaume Abella
    Guillermo Villegas
    Josep M. Selga
    Year: 2008
    Evaluation of a Policy-Based QoS Management Architecture over an IPv6 DiffServ testbed
    TRIDENTCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2007.4444697
Alex Vallejo1,*, Agustín Zaballos1,*, Jaume Abella1,*, Guillermo Villegas1,*, Josep M. Selga1,*
  • 1: Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull (URL), Barcelona, Spain
*Contact email: avallejo@salle.url.edu, zaballos@salle.url.edu, jaumea@salle.url.edu, gvillegas@salle.url.edu, jmselga@salle.url.edu

Abstract

In this paper we present the implementation of a bandwidth broker architecture for the centralized management of the QoS in native IPv6 DiffServ networks in a multi-domain environment. The bandwidth broker has been programmed in JAVA and uses COPS-PR as an intra-domain communication protocol and SIBBSv6 as an inter-domain communication protocol. The latter protocol is also presented. SIBBSv6 is a variation of the SIBBS inter-domain communication protocol with some new features such as the IPv6 support. The evaluation of the proposed architecture has been tested by implementing a real IPv6 DiffServ testbed composed of three domains. Each of these domains is managed by the developed bandwidth broker named BBv6. The results of these tests and the corresponding conclusions are also presented.