Performance Evaluation of the Impact of Quality of Service mechanisms in an IPv6 network for IPv6 - capable real time applications

TitlePerformance Evaluation of the Impact of Quality of Service mechanisms in an IPv6 network for IPv6 - capable real time applications
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsBouras, C, Gkamas, A, Stamos, K, Primpas, D
JournalJournal of Network and Systems Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 12, Issue 4
Pagination 463 - 483
Date PublishedDecember
Abstract

This paper describes a Quality of Service (QoS) service on an IPv6 domain that aims
to service aggregates of real-time traffic with minimum delay, jitter, and packet loss. It
contains results from the tests that were performed in order to configure and evaluate the
QoSmechanisms.As an actual example of real-time traffic, we have used theOpenH323
project, an open source H.323 implementation that has been ported to IPv6. The QoS
mechanisms in IPv6 networks is still a field that has not been researched adequately,
and we therefore present the results from the experiments in our IPv6 network that
took advantage of the QoS mechanisms. This QoS service uses the Modular QoS CLI
(MQC) mechanism and especially the Low Latency Queue feature (LLQ) in order to
treat packets from real-time applications.