[e2e] Network level qos support for web services

[Lars Eggert]

David P. Reed wrote:
> Syed Hasan wrote:
> 
>> So does we need to tune diffserv for web services? If not then what is 
>> the
>> solution for a company which wants better service for its critical web
>> services?
>>
> Faisal - since actual "service quality" has very little to do with what 
> the protocol community calls "QoS", it is my opinion that web services 
> should look elsewhere than diffserv to obtain their service quality.

I agree. A number of year back, we showed that - depending on where your 
bottleneck resource is - you can often do effective "diffserv" at the 
application layer, i.e., inside a web server.

Application-Level Differentiated Services for Web Servers. Lars Eggert 
and John Heidemann. World Wide Web Journal, Vol, 3, Issue 2, 1999, pp. 
133-142. http://www.larseggert.de/papers/app-lvl-diff-serv.pdf

Lars
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Lars Eggert                                     NEC Network Laboratories
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