Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Real Time Applications in packet switched networks

David Clark, Scott Shenker, Lixia Zhang, "Supporting Real-Time Applications in an Integrated Services Packet Network: Architecture and Mechanism"

Goal
  • packet switched network which supports real-time applications (ISPN)
    applications are divided into adaptive versus rigid, tolerant versus intolerant
    (ISDN is mentioned as an intermittent form of digital network but used for telephony)
  • preschedule services, packet delay bound known a priori
  • support of guaranteed and predicted service (statistical, dynamic)
    (Motivating observation: video applications can drop frames, audio conversations can introduce small silence in case of increasing delay times, ...)
Architecture
  • service interface communicating quality of service the network can deliver to end host and traffic requirements of end host to routers for resource allocation
  • packet scheduling algorithms meeting service commitments, algorithm supported by additional scheduling information in packet header

Guaranteed Traffic characterized by token bucket filter
Techniques: FIFO, Weighted FQ, ...

Assumption that flows are well-behaved
No discussion on gradual deployment

I got lost in the middle of the paper in technical details.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

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Nathan Cook said...
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