Quality of service support over switched Ethernet

Author

Pandey, Aparna ; Alnuweiri, H.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

353

Lastpage

356

Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of switched-Ethernet LANs when transporting real-time video streams. Our study covers several switched-LAN topologies that employ switches with different capabilities. Such capabilities include the use of shared versus dedicated ports and single versus multi-priority access buffers in the switch ports. As an example, we consider the transport of several medium and low packet video streams that correspond to video conferencing activities over a switched LAN. Our results show the impact of LAN switch parameters on the delay and loss performance of real-time video streams

Keywords

carrier sense multiple access; local area networks; packet switching; quality of service; queueing theory; telecommunication traffic; visual communication; CSMA/CD; LAN performance; QoS enhancement; dedicated ports; multi-priority access buffers; packet video; priority queueing; quality of service support; real-time video streams; shared ports; single-priority access buffers; switched-Ethernet LAN; Delay; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Packet switching; Quality of service; Streaming media; Switches; Topology; Video sharing; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5582-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1999.799549

Filename

799549