• Introduction to Traffic Engineering • Historical and Present Traffic Engineering Approaches • Recommendations for Internet Traffic Engineering • Contemporary TE Practices in Operational IP Networks
• Overview of QoS in IP networks • Integrated Service model (IntServ) • Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) • Differentiated Services model (DiffServ)
• Why Scheduling? • Problem Definition • Metrics and Requirements of Scheduling Discipline • Mechanisms to Create a Scheduling Discipline • Scheduling Disciplines for Best Effort Connections • Scheduling Disciplines for Guaranteed-service Connections • QoS Service curve model
• Why packet drop • Classification of drop strategies • IP Active Queue Management(AQM) - RED - FRED - BLUE - RIO • Case study: Performance of Selective Discard