QoS management in DSL services of an ISP in Iran

Abstract: Quality of Service is a set of mechanisms created for differentiating users and data flows. Provisioning the QoS in service provider networks is always interesting for their business departments for they can offer and sell diverse services and to make more money. This thesis QoS for DSL subscribers of Pardis Online - the private ISP in Iran. The size of the network, the certain network connectivity limitations the ISP has in addition to the complexity of the services it provides, necessitate a comprehensive study to elucidate the different service types and requirements and then choosing a specific implementation of QoS in order to meet the ISP’s need. The internet bandwidth in the region that ISP operates is very expensive and the users suffer from the lack of bandwidth so the limited internet links are usually congested in the network. This document concludes with proposing a layered QoS that guarantees that the total bandwidth of an area in congested times is distributed to the users in that area proportionate to the subscribed band width. The resulting proposals are tested in the Lab and their performance under the simulated traffic is monitored and analyzed.