Design and Implementation of EJB based QoS Management System framework for Differentiated Services

DiffServ supports aggregated traffic classes to provide various QoS to different classes of traffics. However, current DiffServ specifications do not have a complete QoS management framework. It is possible to lead to serious QoS violations without a QoS management support. From this reasoning, a QoS management system that can manage differentiated QoS provisioning is required. This paper proposes and implements a policy-based QoS management platform for differentiated services networks, which specifies QoS policies to guarantee dynamic QoS requirements. The implementation of the proposed platform is built on W framework and uses XML to represent and validate high-level QoS policies. High-level QoS policies are represented as valid XML documents and are mapped into Em beans of the EJB-based policy server of the platform. The policy distribution and the QoS monitoring are processed using SNMP.