Design and Implementation of the Traffic Control Module in ns-3

Abstract

The Linux networking subsystem relies on the Traffic Control infrastructure to process both the incoming and the outgoing packets. One of the most important components of the Traffic Control is the queueing discipline, whose role is to store packets waiting for transmission and select the next packet to pass to the network interface. The Linux Traffic Control enables to perform scheduling, shaping of the egress traffic, policing of the ingress traffic, and dropping of both ingress and egress traffic.