RFC 5559: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture

This document describes a general architecture for flow admission and termination based on pre-congestion information in order to protect the quality of…

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Outgoing relationships (24 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 3246: An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 2205: Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 2475: An Architecture for Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 3411: An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
Informative reference — RFC 4656: A One-way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP)
Informative reference — RFC 3270: Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services
Informative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Informative reference — RFC 1633: Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: an Overview
Informative reference — RFC 2983: Differentiated Services and Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 3393: IP Packet Delay Variation Metric for IP Performance Metrics (IPPM)
Informative reference — RFC 2747: RSVP Cryptographic Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 4594: Configuration Guidelines for DiffServ Service Classes
Informative reference — RFC 2211: Specification of the Controlled-Load Network Element Service
Informative reference — RFC 2753: A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control
Informative reference — RFC 5129: Explicit Congestion Marking in MPLS
Informative reference — RFC 4216: MPLS Inter-Autonomous System (AS) Traffic Engineering (TE) Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 4774: Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field
Informative reference — RFC 4778: Operational Security Current Practices in Internet Service Provider Environments
Informative reference — RFC 2998: A Framework for Integrated Services Operation over Diffserv Networks
Informative reference — RFC 3726: Requirements for Signaling Protocols

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 6660: Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6661: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Boundary-Node Behavior for the Controlled Load (CL) Mode of Operation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6662: Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Boundary-Node Behavior for the Single Marking (SM) Mode of Operation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6663: Requirements for Signaling of Pre-Congestion Information in a Diffserv Domain
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7567: IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue Management
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5670: Metering and Marking Behaviour of PCN-Nodes
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5696: Baseline Encoding and Transport of Pre-Congestion Information
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9522: Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6627: Overview of Pre-Congestion Notification Encoding
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6411: Applicability of Keying Methods for RSVP Security