This course addresses the topics of Quality of Service
(QoS) and efficiency in networks, topics include: introduction to Internet and
wireless networks. QoS architectures for the Internet including IntServ, RSVP,
and Diffserv; different classes of services and their QoS requirements;
algorithms to provide QoS, traffic policing and traffic shaping algorithms;
leaky bucket algorithms; algorithms to provide QoS locally including scheduling algorithms (FIFO, RR,
WRR), queuing algorithms (RED, WRED, RIO, CBQ); classification of routing
protocols in communication networks from the QoS perspective, routing protocols
for ad hoc networks and QoS offered by each one; understanding the effect of
QoS parameters (delay, jitter delay, percentage of packet losses, throughput)
and QoS metrics (distance, available bandwidth, delay, jitter delay, losses,
load) on the network performance.
