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An AltQ-based software router, using CBQ as key building block, offers a flexible platform to provide service differentiation in the future Internet. This paper presents an experimental analysis of the actual performance and scheduling accuracy of an AltQ/CBQ-based software router, using a very precise hardware-based measuring technique. Our results show, that even though several jitter effects can be estimated very well in advance, they can become considerably large with only a small number of concurrent flows. Moreover, the forwarding performance of the test system is still not sufficient to handle a single Fast Ethernet link, which will lead to an unpredictable delay jitter.
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Breest, D., Müller, JA. (2005). Performance of a Software Router Using AltQ/CBQ – A Measurement-Based Analysis. In: Ajmone Marsan, M., Bianchi, G., Listanti, M., Meo, M. (eds) Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks. QoS-IP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30573-6_28
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