Ensuring quality of service for multimedia applications in a LAN environment

Author

Fahmi, Husni ; Paul, Raymond A. ; Bashandy, Ahmed ; Ghafoor, Arif

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

207

Abstract

We present a mechanism for dynamically allocating network resources in asynchronous LANs for supporting multimedia applications that require quality of service guarantee. The approach is based on the concept of time division multiple access (TDMA). It uses a centralized controller as the bandwidth manager. The total bandwidth is partitioned into two segments: one is used for serving multimedia connections and the other for the normal CSMA/CD sessions. Experimental results reveal that the performance of the proposed scheme is substantially better than that of the random access mechanism. In particular, transmission rates for multimedia hosts are improved significantly with low jitter variations in media streams

Keywords

carrier sense multiple access; local area networks; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; quality control; resource allocation; time division multiple access; CSMA/CD sessions; LAN environment; TDMA; asynchronous LANs; bandwidth manager; centralized controller; dynamic network resource allocation; low jitter variations; media streams; multimedia applications; multimedia connections; multimedia hosts; quality of service guarantee; time division multiple access; transmission rates; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Ethernet networks; Jitter; Local area networks; Multiaccess communication; Quality of service; Resource management; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Assurance Systems Engineering Workshop, 1997., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7971-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HASE.1997.648066

Filename

648066