A Practical Approach to Implement QoS in Broadband Access Networks

광대역 접속망에서 QoS 구현을 위한 현실적 접근법

  • 박승철 (한국기술교육대학교 인터넷미디어공학부)
  • Published : 2006.06.01

Abstract

Most of the existing broadband access networks based on DSL, cable modem, and Ethernet support the best-effort internet access service, and adopt the flat rate pricing mechanism. It is almost impossible to provide the differentiated communication services, in current broadband access networks, for the different users and/or the different application services. Currently, however, the advances in multimedia, communication, and security technologies push the interactive and/or streaming multimedia services and VPN services to be widely deployed over Internet, and they require more QoS-sensitive services than the best-effort service. Though various QoS technologies such as RSVP-based IntServ and DiffSern were already developed and under standardization in Internet world, it is impractical to replace the existing QoS-unaware access networks with the QoS-enabled ones at a time to deploy QoS-sensitive services. In this paper, after analyzing current broadband access network architectures and the status of QoS support, we propose a practical approach to support multimedia QoS in the broadband access networks. The approach will be based on the integration of the differentiated pricing and the DiffServ technology. And it will be a step-wise approach to support backward compatibility with the legacy broadband access networks as much as possible.

DSL, 캐이블 모뎀, 그리고 이더넷 기반으로 구축된 대부분의 광대역 접속망은 주로 인터넷 접속 서비스 제공에 활용되고, 최선형(Best-effort) 인터넷 서비스를 제공하며, 정액제(Flat Rate Pricing) 방식의 요금 체계를 채택하고 있어서 사용자별 그리고/또는 응용 서비스별 차별화된 통신 서비스 제공이 어렵다. 그러나 최근 멀티미디어 통신 기술, 보안 기술 등의 발전으로 최선형 인터넷 접속 서비스 이상의 서비스 품질(QoS-Quality of Service) 제공을 요구하는 대화형/스트리밍형 멀티미디어 서비스와 VPN(Virtual Private Network)의 도입이 확대되고 있다. 인터넷에서 QoS 제공을 위하여 RSVP 기반의 IntServ와 DiffServ 와 같은 다양한 기술들이 개발되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 현재의 광대역 접속망 구조와 QoS 지원 현황을 분석하고, 광대역 접속망 환경에서 멀티미디어 서비스 지원을 위해 요구되는 QoS를 지원할 수 있는 현실적인 접근법과 구현 방안을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 QoS 지원 방안은 종량제 형태의 과금 체계와 DiffServ 방식의 QoS 지원 기법의 결합으로 이루어지고, 기존 광대역 접속망과의 역호환성을 고려한 단계적인 접근 방안을 채택하고 있다.

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