Priority assignment for multimedia multipoint-to-point communication

This paper proposes a priority assignment method for multimedia multipoint-to-point communication. First, it discusses the performance degradation of multimedia communication caused by delay and proposes a new performance measure. Then it gives the priority assignment method based on the new measure. According to the analysis, it is shown that the proposed priority assignment increases the performance of the path with large performance degradation, at the expense of the decrease in performance of the path with small performance degradation