Soft resource reservation: A flexible guarantee of QoS

Much research efforts are presently involved in developing network protocols suitable for multimedia services through LAN and even Internet. Due to large size and time sensitiveness of data, it is usually a hard task to deliver the services up to the expectations of the users. But the basic intention of the user, for the multimedia services, usually have a wide scope for tolerance and flexibility. If that flexibility is explored and exploited, it is possible to basically satisfy the user even with marginal resources. It is important to intelligently interpret user´s request as well as distribute the system and network resources optimally. In this paper we are proposing an Intelligent Soft Resource Reservation Protocol (ISORRP) for realizing acceptable running quality of application by intelligent interpretation of users´ requests and optimum distribution of available resources among them. In this architecture QoS to a session is only flexibly guaranteed but always to a level acceptable to the user