The DIY approach to QoS

There is much attention given today to the provisioning of service quality in the Internet. In this position paper we advocate the use of an architecture that improves the integrated-services architecture and allows it to be brought into a differentiated-services context. The main idea in our work is to move functionality and per-session state from the network nodes out to the hosts. Such decentralization improves scalability and simplifies QoS for multicast sessions.