Scheduling algorithms for different approaches to quality of service provisioning

Abstract

IP network provides only best effort delivery meaning, that data is transmitted at unspecified variable bit rate and delivery time is unknown, depending on the current traffic load. Nowadays, real-time traffic occupies significant percentage of the available bandwidth and Internet must evolve to support new applications. Therefore one of the main and crucial objective of the future Internet is to change best effort network into Quality of Service controlled network. Authors believe that virtualization may be an important component of the Future Internet architecture as well, therefore we search for scheduling policy, that will be implementable as a physical network adapter scheduler in virtual monitor, capable of QoS provisioning. The main purpose of this paper is to review the existing scheduling algorithms and to consider their usage in virtual monitor with the aforementioned assumptions. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.