IEEE P802.1p

IEEE P802.1p is the name of a task group active during 1995–98 responsible for adding traffic class expediting and dynamic multicast filtering to the IEEE 802.1D standard. Essentially, they provided a mechanism for implementing Quality of Service (QoS) at the media access control (MAC) level. The group's work with the new priority classes and Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP) was not published separately but was incorporated into a major revision of the standard, IEEE 802.1D-1998. It also required a short amendment extending the frame size of the Ethernet standard by four bytes which was published as IEEE 802.3ac in 1998.

The QoS technique developed by the working group, also known as class of service (CoS), is a 3-bit field called the Priority Code Point (PCP) within an Ethernet frame header when using VLAN tagged frames as defined by IEEE 802.1Q. It specifies a priority value of between 0 and 7 inclusive that can be used by QoS disciplines to differentiate traffic. Although this technique is commonly referred to as IEEE 802.1p, there is no standard or amendment by that name published by the IEEE. Rather the technique is incorporated into IEEE 802.1Q standard which specifies the tag inserted into an Ethernet frame.[1]

Priority levels

Eight different classes of service are available as expressed through the 3-bit PCP field in an IEEE 802.1Q header added to the frame. The way traffic is treated when assigned to any particular class is undefined and left to the implementation. The IEEE however has made some broad recommendations:[2][3]

PCP Priority Acronym Traffic types
10 (lowest)BKBackground
01BEBest Effort
22EEExcellent Effort
33CACritical Applications
44VIVideo, < 100 ms latency and jitter
55VOVoice, < 10 ms latency and jitter
66ICInternetwork Control
77 (highest)NCNetwork Control

Note that the above recommendations are in use since IEEE 802.1Q-2005 and were revised from the original recommendations in IEEE 802.1D-2004 to better accommodate IP DiffServ.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IEEE 802.1p: LAN Layer 2 QoS/CoS Protocol for Traffic Prioritization". Javin. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  2. ↑ IEEE Std. 802.1Q-2005, Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks (PDF; 2.3 MiB). Table G-2 - Traffic type acronyms.
  3. ↑ IEEE Std. 802.1Q-2011, Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks (PDF; 6.0 MiB). Table I-2 - Traffic type acronyms.
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