AMnet: active multicasting network

Author

Wittmann, Ralph ; Zitterbart, Martina

Author_Institution

Inst. of Oper. Syst. & Comput. Networks, Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

7-11 Jun 1998

Firstpage

896

Abstract

Today we are faced with an increasing variety of networks and end systems. The resulting heterogeneous environment imposes new challenges on communication support for multimedia and collaborative applications. AMnet is an approach that provides multipoint communication support for large-scale groups with heterogeneous receivers. Active network nodes are used to deliver data streams with user-tailored QoS. They provide so-called QoS filters that remove information from continuous media streams in order to reduce data rate for low-end receivers without affecting high-end receivers. A prototype implementation of AMnet based on RSVP Filer is presented

Keywords

computer networks; groupware; multimedia communication; protocols; telecommunication signalling; AMnet; MPEG-1 filters; QoS filters; RSVP Filer; active multicasting network; active network nodes; collaborative applications; computer networks; continuous media streams; data rate reduction; data streams; end systems; heterogeneous environment; heterogeneous receivers; high-end receivers; large-scale groups; low-end receivers; multimedia applications; multipoint communication support; prototype implementation; user-tailored QoS; Application software; Collaboration; Computer networks; Operating systems; Personal digital assistants; Prototypes; Quality of service; Streaming media; Telecommunication network reliability; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1998. ICC 98. Conference Record. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4788-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1998.685141

Filename

685141