Guaranteeing Performance for Real-Time Communication in Wide-Area Networks

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 of 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA631648

Entities

People

  • Domenico Ferrari

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Digital Communications
  • Local Area Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Packet Switching
  • User Interface
  • Wide Area Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.