Application-aware routing protocol

Author

Veeraraghavan, M. ; Pancha, P. ; Eng, K.Y.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

1-3 Jul 1997

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

448

Abstract

Increasingly, there is a need for context-aware networking. For example, in multimedia networks with heterogeneous end equipment, if two or more communicating nodes do not have the same application-layer interface, the network should be aware of the “context” of the communication in order to select an appropriate converter through which to route connections. In this paper, we motivate the need for logical connections, where a logical connection consists of one or more network-layer connections routed through application-layer resources, such as bridges and/or format/rate converters. We then describe the application-aware routing protocol (AARP) for managing logical connections

Keywords

multimedia communication; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; AARP; application-aware routing protocol; application-layer interface; application-layer resources; bridges; communicating nodes; context-aware networking; converter; format converters; heterogeneous end equipment; logical connections; logical connections management; multimedia networks; network-layer connections; rate converters; Aging; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bridges; Communication switching; Context awareness; Materials requirements planning; Network topology; Resource management; Routing protocols; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1997. Proceedings., Second IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Alexandria

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7852-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.1997.616038

Filename

616038