Publication Details

Title: Client Requirements for Real-Time Communication Services
Author: D. Ferrari
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: March 1990
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/tr-90-07.pdf

Overview:
A real-time communication service provides its clients with the ability to specify their performance requirements and to obtain guarantees about the satisfaction of those requirements. In this paper, we propose a set of performance specifications that seem appropriate for such services; they include various types of delay bounds, throughput bounds, and reliability bounds. We also describe other requirements and desirable properties from a client's viewpoint, and the ways in which each requirement is to be translated to make it suitable for lower levels in the protocol hierarchy. Finally, we present examples of requirements specification, and discuss some of the possible objections to our approach.

Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-90-007

Bibliographic Reference:
D. Ferrari. Client Requirements for Real-Time Communication Services. ICSI Technical Report TR-90-007, March 1990