Publication Details
Title: Guaranteeing Performance for Real-Time Communication in Wide-Area Networks
Author: D. Ferrari
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: January 1989
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/tr-89-001.pdf
Overview:
The increasing importance of distributed multimedia applications and the emergence of user interfaces based on digital audio and digital video will soon require that computer communication networks offer real-time services. This paper argues that the feasibility for providing performance guarantees in a wide-area network should be investigated, and describes a possible approach. We present a model of the network to be studied, and discuss its generality, as well as the presumable limits to its validity in the future. We also give a careful formulation of the problem, including a precise definition of the guarantees to be provided and a provably correct scheme for the establishment of real-time connections with deterministic, statistical, and best-effort delay bounds.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-89-001
Bibliographic Reference:
D. Ferrari. Guaranteeing Performance for Real-Time Communication in Wide-Area Networks. ICSI Technical Report TR-89-001, January 1989
Author: D. Ferrari
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: January 1989
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/tr-89-001.pdf
Overview:
The increasing importance of distributed multimedia applications and the emergence of user interfaces based on digital audio and digital video will soon require that computer communication networks offer real-time services. This paper argues that the feasibility for providing performance guarantees in a wide-area network should be investigated, and describes a possible approach. We present a model of the network to be studied, and discuss its generality, as well as the presumable limits to its validity in the future. We also give a careful formulation of the problem, including a precise definition of the guarantees to be provided and a provably correct scheme for the establishment of real-time connections with deterministic, statistical, and best-effort delay bounds.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-89-001
Bibliographic Reference:
D. Ferrari. Guaranteeing Performance for Real-Time Communication in Wide-Area Networks. ICSI Technical Report TR-89-001, January 1989