The BERKOM-II FlowSpec and its mapping on ATM

Author

Damaskos, Spiridon ; Gavras, Anastassios

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Open Commun. Syst., German Nat. Res. Corp. for Math. and Data Processing, Berlin, Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

141

Abstract

The BERKOM multimedia transport service provides a communication platform for audiovisual communication. It incorporates a modified version of the Xpress Transfer Protocol (XTP-Lite) and the Internet Stream protocol Version II (ST-II). For the utilisation of ATM networks a variety of issues have to be resolved. One of them is the translation and mapping of the quality of service (QoS), that is offered at the transport layer service access point (SAP), to the QoS and network performance (NP) parameters that are offered at the physical SAP to the ATM layer. In this work a mapping of the BERKOM-II FlowSpec on ATM is given and equations for the translation of the respective parameter values are given. The control of the network layer connections is done using procedures and parameters that are currently defined in the ATM control plane

Keywords

B-ISDN; Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; multimedia communication; optical fibre communication; optical fibre networks; protocols; ATM control; ATM layer; ATM networks; B-ISDN; BERKOM-II; Internet Stream protocol Version II; QoS; XTP-Lite; Xpress Transfer Protocol; audiovisual communication; communication platform; flow specification; mapping; multimedia transport service; network layer connections control; network performance parameters; quality of service; service access point; translation; transport layer; Access protocols; Bit rate; Data processing; Delay; Mathematics; Multimedia systems; Performance loss; Quality of service; Streaming media; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.369006

Filename

369006