Overview
This section describes the traffic policing and shaping feature for individual subscriber. This feature is comprises of two functions:
- Traffic Policing
- Traffic Shaping
Traffic Policing
Traffic policing enables the configuring and enforcing of bandwidth limitations on individual subscribers and/or APN of a particular traffic class in 3GPP/3GPP2 service.
Bandwidth enforcement is configured and enforced independently on the downlink and the uplink directions.
- Committed Data Rate (CDR): The guaranteed rate (in bits per second) at which packets can be transmitted/received for the subscriber during the sampling interval.
- Peak Data Rate (PDR): The maximum rate (in bits per second) that subscriber packets can be transmitted/received for the subscriber during the sampling interval.
- Burst-size: The maximum number of bytes that can be transmitted/received for the subscriber during the sampling interval for both committed (CBS) and peak (PBS) rate conditions. This represents the maximum number of tokens that can be placed in the subscriber's "bucket". Note that the committed burst size (CBS) equals the peak burst size (PBS) for each subscriber.
- Drop: The offending packet is discarded.
- Transmit: The offending packet is passed.
- Lower the IP Precedence: The packet's ToS bit is set to "0", thus downgrading it to Best Effort, prior to passing the packet. Note that if the packet's ToS bit was already set to "0", this action is equivalent to "Transmit".
Traffic Shaping
Traffic Shaping is a rate limiting method similar to the Traffic Policing, but provides a buffer facility for packets exceeded the configured limit. Once the packet exceeds the data-rate, the packet queued inside the buffer to be delivered at a later time.
The bandwidth enforcement can be done in the downlink and the uplink direction independently. If there is no more buffer space available for subscriber data system can be configured to either drop the packets or kept for the next scheduled traffic session.
Important |
Traffic Shaping is not supported on the GGSN, P-GW, or SAEGW. |