A synchronization service framework for XTP

Author

Esteve, Manuel ; Palau, Carlos ; Guerri, Juan C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., Valencia Univ., Spain

fYear

1995

fDate

16-19 Oct 1995

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

218

Abstract

New real-time applications like videoconference and video-on-demand as well as classical industrial and military hard real-time applications require a set of accurate services from transport protocols. Management of a global time reference in the network is one of them. Possibly, XTP will be one of the standard communication protocols for distributed real-time systems in a few years, due to its great variety of services and high performance offered. The authors propose the incorporation of a new service to the XTP offered set: the supply of a common time reference to a group of XTP users within the network. The proposed synchronization protocol to maintain this common time service works by wave sequence making use of the multicasting functionality of XTP 4.0. This proposed synchronization service maybe added to future XTP versions

Keywords

synchronisation; transport protocols; XTP; communication protocols; distributed real-time systems; synchronization service; transport protocols; Access protocols; Clocks; Communication standards; Defense industry; Multicast protocols; Real time systems; Synchronization; TCPIP; Transport protocols; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1995., Proceedings. 20th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7162-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1995.527347

Filename

527347