QoS Terminology Sample Clauses

QoS Terminology. The ITU defines a service level agreement (SLA) as “a negotiated agreement between a customer and the service provider on levels of service characteristics and the associated set of metrics. The content of SLA varies depending on the service offering and includes the attributes required for the negotiated agreement” [3]. An SLA may be in form of a Figure 1. A sample GUI for real-time monitoring document containing names of the parties signing the contract. It should be composed of service level objectives, service monitoring components, and financial compensation components. Service level objectives encompass QoS parameters or class of the service provided, service availability and reliability, authentication issues, the SLA expiry date, and so on. Service monitoring specifies the way of measuring service quality and other parameters used to assess whether the service complies with the SLA. It may also include an agreement on form and frequency of delivering the report on service usage. The financial component may include billing options, penalties for breaking the contract, and so forth [3]. The notion of service level specification (SLS) was introduced to separate a technical part of the contract from SLA. It is defined as “a set of parameters and their values which together define the service offered to a traffic” [4]. It specifies a set of values of network parameters related to a particular service. The IP transport services are technically described by SLSs. A traffic conditioning agreement (TCA) is an agreement specifying packet classification rules and traffic profiles as a description of the temporal properties of a traffic stream, such as the rate and burst size. In order to force a customer’s traffic conformance to the profile particular metering, marking, discarding, and shaping rules are defined. The treatment of out- of-profile packets is also specified by a TCA. According to the IETF definition, “TCA encompasses all of the traffic conditioning rules explicitly specified within a SLA along with all of the rules implicit from the relevant service requirements and/or from a DiffServ domain’s service provisioning policy” [5]. The traffic conditioning specification (TCS) is a set of parameters with assigned values that unambiguously specify a set of classifier rules and a traffic profile. A TCS is a technical part of TCA. A TCS is also an integral element of an SLS [6]. Interrelations between SLA, SLS, TCA and TCS are shown in Fig. 1[7].
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