QoS-based Residential Gateway

Abstract

Residential Gateway (RG) is a device that coordinates various home devices to communicate each other and links up the Internet. It plays an important role in home network, especially the applications in home network are evolving and growing quickly to demand the additional feature QoS (Quality of Service) to meet network resource requirement. This paper presents a RG with a Transparent QoS Mechanism (TQM) in IntServ and DiffServ to utilize the limited network bandwidth more efficiently. The RG is implemented on the Linux platform, features inexpensive, easily interoperability, maintainable from both software and hardware perspectives, and also easily upgradeable to meet market demands for new multimedia services.