RMD-a lightweight application of NSIS

Resource management in DiffServ (RMD) framework is a simple, effective and scalable signaling method for resource reservation within a DiffServ domain. In the present paper we describe the way of integrating RMD in the future NSIS QoS application protocol that is under standardization in IETF. We demonstrate that the RMD edge-to-edge signaling is able to inter-work with end-to-end resource reservation protocols e.g. RSVP. Basic performance measurements and evaluation, comparing RMD and RSVP, are also shown.