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| Authors: | Daniel Bauer, Burkhard Stiller, Bernhard Plattner |
| Group: | Communication Systems |
| Type: | Misc |
| Title: | Quality-of-Service-oriented Communication Support for Multipoint Applications |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Month: | March |
| Pub-Key: | BSP99 |
| Abstract: | The Multipoint Communication Framework MCF defines and implements a communication architecture that offers flexible multipoint communication services with end-to-end performance guarantees. The requirements of multimedia, multipoint applications are fulfilled by dynamically composed protocol stacks which run on top of a state-of the art network such as an ATM or IP integrated services network. End-to-end performance guarantees are provided by orchestrating end-system and network resources using a real-time scheduler and the network?s native signalling protocol. The QoS management has been specifically designed to meet the requirements of multipoint applications, such as dynamic join and leave of participants. The evaluation of the framework implementation explains that the proposed architecture results in an easy-to-use and highly efficient solution. The dynamic composition of protocol stacks offers high flexibility and allows applications to transport any multimedia data over any network. Resource reservations provide performance guarantees needed for continuous media, such as audio or video. |
| Howpublished: | GI Multicast Workshop, May 20-21, 1999, Braunschweig, Germany |
| Resources: | [BibTeX] |
