NIST Switch: A Platform for Research on Quality of Service Routing

摘要

We have designed and are implementing a research platform, NIST Switch, for experimenting with novel approaches to routing with quality of service (QoS) guarantees in an IP environment, NIST Switch is based on commodity PC hardware running freely-available operating systems (FreeBSD and Linux). It implements quality of service through label switching over Ethernet (10Mb and 100Mb), using proposed extensions to RSVP and differentiated services to signal QoS requests and distribute labels.