Meeting QOS guarantees by end-to-end QOS monitoring and adaptation

Author

Huard, J.-F. ; Inoue, I. ; Lazar, A.A. ; Yamanaka, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

348

Lastpage

355

Abstract

The design and implementation of the transport layer of a native ATM (asynchronous tranfer mode) protocol stack and its embedding into an overall architecture that provides end-to-end quality of service (QOS) is presented. Within this architecture, the typical transport functionalities are enlarged with QOS monitoring and adaptation mechanisms. A QOS-based API (application programming interface) is proposed that shields application programmers from the complexity of QOS management and control. Both unicast and multicast connections supporting interactive multimedia applications are considered.

Keywords

adaptive systems; application program interfaces; asynchronous transfer mode; computerised monitoring; interactive systems; monitoring; multimedia systems; quality control; telecommunication computing; transport protocols; adaptation mechanisms; application programming interface; end-to-end service quality monitoring; interactive multimedia applications; multicast connections; native ATM protocol stack; service quality guarantees; transport functionalities; transport layer; unicast connections; Admission control; Broadband communication; Internet; Monitoring; Programming profession; Quality of service; Resource management; Scheduling; Transport protocols; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996., Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY, USA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7582-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1996.546205

Filename

546205