QoS Implementation in Access Network

This diploma thesis deals with computer networks which play a key role in present society. More and more demands are placed on these networks (especially on quality of services and throughput) because of fast-growing developement of services such as voice and video real-time transmissions. All the packets in typical Ethernet networks are equal. Therefore it is sometimes impossible for the application to maintain required throughput speed of a network. For this case it is useful to take some mechanisms into the consideration. These mechanisms (sometimes called QoS) are able to distinguish different types of transmissions and traffic, analyze them and then prioritize them according to some pre-defined set of rules. The most famous mechanisms are Integrated Services and Differentiated Services. The implementation of Differentiated Services is the goal of this thesis