MAC Overview Connection-oriented technology Explicit service flow reservation is mandatory Real-time environments usage can be compromised Convergence Sublayer (CS) Set of classifiers to identify and differentiate the packets Each classifier maps the incoming packet to a specific CID CID has a service flow associated with a set of QoS parameters 802.3/Ethernet, IPv4, IPv6 … 802.3/Ethernet adopted as CS More Flexible Independent of the upper layer protocol being used (IPv4 or IPv6) |