Abstract :
In the mid-1990s, the Resource Reservation Protocol was touted as the IP counterpoint to ATM´s QoS superiority. The lack of RSVP-enabled applications and of scalable network machinery, however, eventually made it appear to be an “emperor with no clothes”. But RSVP is making a quiet comeback thanks to developments like Winsock2, which gives applications developers a standard API for invoking RSVP reservation setup requests
Keywords :
Internet; application program interfaces; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication signalling; ATM; IP counterpoint; QoS superiority; RSVP reservation setup requests; RSVP-enabled applications; Resource Reservation Protocol; Winsock2; applications developers; general-purpose IP signaling; scalable network machinery; standard API; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Multicast protocols; Permission; Resource management; Routing protocols; Scheduling algorithm; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Unicast;
