Effect of topological and traffic variations on quality of service using RSVP/ns

Abstract

Provision of quality of service (QoS) in todays Internet is an area that attracts the current state-of-the-art research. In this paper, we study the effect of topological and traffic variations on the provision of QoS using RSVP/ns. In our performance evaluation, we focus on the effect of varying packet size, number of flows, and mixing of best-effort flows with RSVP flows on the bandwidth reservations.