Appendix A Acronyms

Table 7: Acronyms

Acronym

Full spelling

AF

Assured Forwarding

BE

Best Effort

BQ

Bandwidth Queuing

CAR

Committed Access Rate

CBS

Committed Burst Size

CBQ

Class Based Queuing

CBWFQ

Class Based Weighted Fair Queuing

CE

Customer Edge

CIR

Committed Information Rate

CQ

Custom Queuing

DAR

Deeper Application Recognition

DCBX

Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol

DiffServ

Differentiated Service

DoS

Denial of Service

DSCP

Differentiated Services Code Point

EBS

Excess Burst Size

EF

Expedited Forwarding

FEC

Forwarding Equivalence Class

FIFO

First in First out

FQ

Fair Queuing

GTS

Generic Traffic Shaping

IntServ

Integrated Service

ISP

Internet Service Provider

LFI

Link Fragmentation and Interleaving

LLQ

Low Latency Queuing

LR

Line Rate

LSP

Label Switched Path

P2P

Peer-to-Peer

MPLS

Multiprotocol Label Switching

PE

Provider Edge

PHB

Per-hop Behavior

PQ

Priority Queuing

QoS

Quality of Service

RED

Random Early Detection

RSVP

Resource Reservation Protocol

RTP

Real-Time Transport Protocol

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SP

Strict Priority

TE

Traffic Engineering

ToS

Type of Service

TP

Traffic Policing

TS

Traffic Shaping

VoIP

Voice over IP

VPN

Virtual Private Network

WFQ

Weighted Fair Queuing

WRED

Weighted Random Early Detection

WRR

Weighted Round Robin