1. The document discusses quality of service (QoS) mechanisms in computer networks. It describes the differences between best effort service and QoS, which aims to provide guarantees for bandwidth, latency, and jitter.
2. The document outlines two main QoS architectures - Integrated Services (IntServ) which provides per-flow reservations and Differentiated Services (DiffServ) which uses traffic classes. It also discusses resource reservation using leaky and token bucket algorithms.
3. RSVP is described as the signaling protocol used to establish per-flow state through PATH and RESV messages. It supports different reservation styles like fixed, shared explicit, and wildcard filters to efficiently share resources among senders.