QoS Flashcards
What happens when traffic volume exceeds available bandwidth?
Packets queued in memory until resources become available to transmit
QoS mechanisms enable:
Higher-priority IP traffic flows (e.g., voice, video) to be forwarded immediately
what are the 3 QoS mechanisms?
classification and marking, policing and shaping, congestion management and avoidance
What are the sources of network congestion problems?
latency (delay), jitter (delay variation), packet loss
what is packet delay?
the time it takes a packet to travel across a network from source to destination
what is processing delay?
The time it takes to accept a packet, examine it, and forward it to the output interface.
what is serialization delay?
The time it takes to place the bits of a packet from the NIC onto the media (Copper, Fiber, Wireless).
what is propagation delay?
The time it takes to place the bits of a packet from the NIC onto the media (Copper, Fiber, Wireless).
what is jitter?
the variation in the delay of received packets
voice traffic is susceptible to what problem?
packet loss
what protocol does voice traffic use?
RTP – real time protocol
what type of traffic has no tolerance for packet loss, and is insensitive to delays and drops
data (web)
what type of traffic is sensitive to delays and drops, but can tolerate latency and jitter?
voice
what type of traffic is unpredictable, less resilient to loss than voice, but can tolerate latency and jitter?
video
what are 4 common congestion queuing algorithms?
- first in first out — FIFO
- weighted fair queuing — WFQ
- class based weighted fair queuing — CBWFQ
- low latency queuing — LLQ
which queuing algorithm…
- works on a first come first served basis,
- has no packet priority,
- is the fastest
FIFO
which queuing algorithm…
- uses automated scheduling,
- does not use classification,
- applies priorities (weights) to different traffic and classifies them into flows,
- interactive traffic is given higher priority,
WFQ
which queuing algorithm…
- extends WFQ functionality,
- provides support for user-defined traffic classes
CBWFQ
which queuing algorithm…
- provides strict priority queuing to CBWFQ,
- reduces jitter in voice traffic,
- bandwidth assigned to class determines packet order
LLQ
what are the 3 QoS models?
- best effort model (no qos)
- integrated services (intserv)
- differentiated services (diffserv)