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Performance Evaluation of the Impact of QoS Mechanisms in an IPv6 Network for IPv6-Capable Real-Time Applications

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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 QoS mechanisms. As an actual example of real-time traffic, we have used the OpenH323 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.

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  1. Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Riga Feraiou 61, GR-26221, Patras, Greece

    Ch. Bouras, A. Gkamas, D. Primpas & K. Stamos

  2. Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, GR-26500, Patras, Greece

    Ch. Bouras, A. Gkamas, D. Primpas & K. Stamos

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Bouras, C., Gkamas, A., Primpas, D. et al. Performance Evaluation of the Impact of QoS Mechanisms in an IPv6 Network for IPv6-Capable Real-Time Applications. J Netw Syst Manage 12, 463–483 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-004-0672-5

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