A negotiation and resource reservation protocol (NRP) for configurable multimedia applications

Author

Dermler, Gabriel ; Fiederer, Walter ; Barth, Ingo ; Rothermel, Kurt

Author_Institution

Inst. of Parallel & Distributed High-Performance Syst., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

17-23 Jun 1996

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

116

Abstract

Distributed multimedia applications require negotiation of quality of service (QoS) and resource reservation for distributed application parts and communication links. Negotiation of QoS is a balancing process between the QoS specified by a client, the resource availabilities of the distributed system and the functional capabilities of the distributed application. Negotiation requires application level QoS descriptions and an end to end view spanning the whole distributed application. NRP is an application level protocol meeting these requirements. NRP performs negotiation based on client specified QoS value ranges and given resource availability on endsystems and communication links. NRP is independent of application level QoS semantics. It allows QoS negotiation and resource reservation in three phases and supports a wide range of distributed application topologies

Keywords

multimedia communication; multimedia computing; protocols; quality control; resource allocation; NRP; QoS negotiation; application level QoS descriptions; application level QoS semantics; application level protocol; client specified QoS value ranges; configurable multimedia applications; distributed application; distributed application topologies; distributed multimedia applications; end to end view; functional capabilities; negotiation and resource reservation protocol; quality of service; resource availabilities; resource availability; resource reservation; Application software; Availability; Motion pictures; Multimedia systems; Network topology; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media; Terminology; Videoconference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7438-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1996.534962

Filename

534962