Testing a new proposed IPv6 QoS management model in inter and intra domains

Network multimedia applications constitute a large part of Internet traffic and present a big challenge because of their sensitivity to delay, packet loss and higher bandwidth requirement. The need for guaranteed delivery and lower delay is caused by propagation of more the one domain. The domains used in this paper are co-operating and communicating with each other and all of them support IPv6 QoS. Therefore, there is a need for IP QoS management model that handles and manages QoS requests and cooperate with other QoS schemes. In this paper, the IPv6 QoS manager is tested when the QoS of traffic flows propagate two and three domains. The IPv6 QoS manager handles QoS requests by either processing them locally if the intended destination is located locally or forwarding them to the neighboring domains that are managed by IPv6 QoS managers. Two simulation scenarios are presented in this paper, intra domain, one domain, and inter domains, two and three domains. End-to-end delay results for the different scenarios have approved that this QoS model can work either in intra or inter domains. In addition to the delay, packets are policed and degraded to lower priority if they exceed their initial traffic rates. This proves that the IPv6 QoS model is flexible and not restricted to one domain. Also, end-to-end QoS has been achieved with one admission and management unit instead of individual and independent management and admission units as in the case of IntServ.