Abstract. An expected growth of real-time traffic in the Internet will place stricter requirements on network performance. We are developing a new simplified service architecture that combines the strengths of the integrated and differentiated services architectures. In this paper we focus on the issues related to providing a guaranteed service in a high-speed network. We give a description of the service, which includes a lightweight signaling protocol and a non-work-conserving scheduling algorithm, and describe the system requirements and the performance evaluation. Our implementation of the protocol allows processing of 30 million signaling messages per second.
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