RESERVATION PROTOCOL AND CLASS BASED QUEUEING ON LINUX

Abstract

This thesis presents the Reservation Protocol (RSVP) as ported to Linux from the original implementation done for SUN OS by the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California. Also presented is the Linux port of the Alternate Queueing framework developed at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory. For this project, the packet scheduling method involved is Class Based Queueing. A data-receiving application communicates with the RSVP daemon running on the local host, via an API, to make resource reservations on intermediate nodes from the receiver to the sender of a particular data flow. Reservations are made in the kernel of the intermediate nodes, as well as the sender host. The actual reservation is then effected by the traffic control module within the kernel of each node.