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This paper examines the use of adaptive priority marking for providing soft
bandwidth guarantees in a differentiated-services Internet, In contrast to
other proposals for achieving the same objective, the proposed scheme does
not require resource reservation for individual connections and can be sup
ported with minimal changes to the network infrastructure, It uses modest s
upport from the network in the form of priority handling for appropriately
marked packets, and relies on intelligent transmission control mechanisms a
t the edges of the network to achieve the desired throughput levels. This p
aper describes the control mechanisms and evaluates their behavior in vario
us network environments. These mechanisms are shown to have several salient
features which make them suitable for deployment in an evolving Internet.