Title :
Management and delivery of multimedia traffic
Author :
Chrysanthis, Panos K. ; Mossé, Daniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pittsburgh Univ., PA, USA
Abstract :
We propose a scheme for the establishment of multimedia delivery channels in WAN environments that support the timing and reliability requirements of multimedia applications while allowing for better utilization of the network bandwidth. These virtual, end-to-end channels from source to destination consist of multiple segments that (a) have a resource reservation scheme that is able to issue guarantees of timeliness and reliability; (b) consider data processing and transformation requirements at specific, intermediate sites; (c) support traffic splitting to cope with limited bandwidth and reduce contention; and (d) offer alternative paths for fault tolerance and reliability
Keywords :
computer network management; computer network reliability; fault tolerant computing; multimedia communication; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; timing; wide area networks; WAN; contention reduction; data processing; data transformation; fault tolerance; multimedia applications; multimedia delivery channels; multimedia traffic delivery; multimedia traffic management; network bandwidth; reliability; resource reservation; timing; traffic splitting; virtual end to end channels; Bandwidth; Costs; Information retrieval; Motion pictures; Multimedia systems; Resource management; Streaming media; Timing; Weather forecasting; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Community Networking, 1995. Integrated Multimedia Services to the Home., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Princeton, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2756-X
DOI :
10.1109/CN.1995.509570
