A simple resource reservation protocol for multicast communications

Author

Bettahar, Hatem ; Beaujean, Christophe ; Bouabdallah, Abdelmadjid ; Cateloin, Stéphane

Author_Institution

Univ. de Technol. de Compiegne, France

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

144

Abstract

In this paper we propose a framework for a simple resource reservation protocol for multicast communications in the Internet. In contrast to RSVP, where heavy setup mechanisms are used, our protocol is traffic driven and does not use special messages for resource reservation, refresh or release. The reservation session is managed by the flow data packets themselves. Our protocol is suitable for resource reservation in dynamic and rearrangeable multicast environments. It also tolerates nodes and links failures by instantaneously allowing a new resource reservation on alternative paths

Keywords

Internet; multicast communication; protocols; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; Internet; dynamic multicast environment; fault tolerance; flow data packets; links failures; multicast communications; rearrangeable multicast environment; resource reservation protocol; traffic driven protocol; Application software; Collaborative work; Communication system control; Internet; Jitter; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Quality of service; Routing protocols; Teleconferencing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 2001. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

ISSN

1530-1346

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1177-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.2001.935366

Filename

935366