OVERVIEW

• General information
• Application scenarios
• Implementation
• Work programme
• Experimental results
• Presentations and minutes
• Pointers

• GENERAL INFORMATION
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• APPLICATION SCENARIOS OF LBE (version of Apr 29 2002)
  • limitation of traffic generated by point-to-point applications not entitled to use NRN network resources (Rediris)
  • mirroring (Uninett), mailing and news distribution (Heanet/Surfnet)
  • isolation of production traffic from invasive test traffic (INFN-CNAF)
  • handling of traffic produced by non TCP-compliant applications (INFN-CNAF)

• IMPLEMENTATION
  • LBE tranparency on GEANT; N.Simar, TF-NGN meeting, Berlin, July 1-2 2002 (pdf)
  • Juniper M series: Premium IP, best-effort and LBE configuration for GEANT; N.Simar, DANTE

• WORK PROGRAMME (version of Apr 29 2002)
  • LBE testing on GEANT, T.Ferrari, DataGrid - GEANT Collaboration, July 2 2002 (pdf)

  • Phase 0: service specification
  • Phase 1: baseline testing of implementation, study of LBE, implementation feasibility (in GEANT and NRNs)
  • Phase 2: performance analysis in user-based scenario (test cases to be identified, DataGRID testbed sites (?) - used of production network infrastructures for testing
  • Phase 3: implementation of user and GEANT/NRN-based scenario, testing on production networks if possible, preliminary lab tests where/if needed
  • Joint experiments with US partners - if/when possible (QBSS)

• NEW: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
  • Experimental results of LBE testing on GEANT (Work Programme phase 3)

• PRESENTATIONS AND MINUTES
  • LBE/Scavenger; T.Chown, TF-NGN meeting, Berlin, July 1-2 2002 (pdf)
  • LBE tranparency on GEANT; N.Simar, TF-NGN meeting, Berlin, July 1-2 2002 (pdf)
  • Minutes of the LBE BOF, TNC 2002, Limerick, Ireland
  • Less-than-best-effort services; T.Ferrari, TF-NGN meeting Southampton, Apr 18-19 2002, (pdf)

• POINTERS TO SERVICES RELEVANT TO TF-NGN AND DOCUMENTATION
  • A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior for Differentiated Services, Bless R. et alt. (txt), June 2002
  • The QBONE Scavenger service (QBSS)
  • The Alternative Best-Effort service (ABE)
  • QoS and SuperJANET