Alternative Best Effort (ABE) for Service Differentiation: Trading Loss Versus Delay

The idea of an Alternative Best Effort (ABE) per-hop behaviour (PHB) emerged about 20 years ago. It provides a low-delay traffic class in the Internet at the expense of more packet loss than Best Effort (BE). Therefore, ABE is better suited than BE for loss-tolerant but delay-sensitive applications....

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