Stateless core: A scalable approach for quality of service in the internet. Wining thesis of the 2001 ACM doctoral dissertation competition. (Q1880553)

The paper deals with a novel, scalable approach for QoS in the Internet. Taking into account advantages and drawbacks of the most popular IP QoS architectures, namely: IntServ and DiffServ models, the author proposes its own stateless core network architecture. The stateless (connectionless) core and so-called dynamic packet state technique provide effective service of different traffic classes as well as traffic management. The author defines a novel core-stateless fair queueing mechanism to provide fair bandwidth allocation. With this method, edge routers use per flow state to estimate the rate of each incoming flow. Edge routers classify packets, upon their arrival, to appratiate flows, then update flows' rate estimates and label packets with these estimates. In turn, core routers implement FIFO queueing with probabilistic dropping on input. The author uses simulation and experimental results to evaluate proposed solutions.