Integrated quality of service for multimedia communications

Author

Campbell, Andrew ; Coulson, Geoff ; Garcia, Francisco ; Hutchinson, David ; Leopold, Helmut

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Lancaster Univ., UK

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

732

Abstract

The integration of distributed multimedia systems around the unifying theme of quality of service (QOS) is addressed. A set of key QOS requirements is presented and mapped onto a provisional QOS architecture (QOS-A) that has emerged from a experimental system designed and implemented at Lancaster. The scope of the discussion is limited to aspects of a QOS-A for the support of continuous media communications. Also, the focus is on asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) at the network layer rather than the full range of multiservice networks. Functions and mechanisms for QOS support are examined and placed within the evolving QOS-A

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; distributed processing; multimedia systems; telecommunication services; ATM; QOS; asynchronous transfer mode; distributed multimedia systems; multimedia communications; network layer; quality of service; Bandwidth; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Delay; Error correction; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Protocols; Quality of service; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3580-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253297

Filename

253297