Guaranteeing Performance for Real-Time Communication in Wide-Area Networks
| Title | Guaranteeing Performance for Real-Time Communication in Wide-Area Networks |
| Publication Type | Technical Report |
| Year of Publication | 1989 |
| Authors | Ferrari, D. |
| Other Numbers | 500 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/tr-89-001.pdf |
| Bibliographic Notes | ICSI Technical Report TR-89-001 |
| Abbreviated Authors | D. Ferrari |
| ICSI Publication Type | Technical Report |