Lightweight Monitoring of Edge-based Admission Control

This paper describes a software monitor that can control and police end-to-end admission control schemes. The monitor has low hardware requirements and it is well suited to be implemented in access routers or firewalls. We present a prototype implemented with commodity hardware and open source software which performs protocol compliance monitoring and can log and filter out single misbehaving flows. The protocol monitor can easily be extended to police other end to end protocols such as TCP, ensuring end-to-end QoS service level agreements with end users

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