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Reservation protocols for internetworks: A comparison of ST-II and RSVP

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Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 1993)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 846))

Abstract

Although efforts on reservation protocols for internetworks started quite some time ago, the research community is now becoming particularly active in this area, as proved by the high interest generated by protocols such as ST-II and RSVP. These two protocols, starting from different assumptions, have the common goal of providing guaranteed communication by reserving network bandwidth. This paper provides a short comparison of the two protocols. It describes and compares their mechanisms, focusing on the data forwarding, multicast, and quality of service aspects for multimedia communication. Rather than trying to decide which protocol is superior, we have identified the classes of applications which are better supported by one or the other protocol.

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  1. Distributed Multimedia Solutions, IBM European Networking Center, Vangerowstr. 18, D-69115, Heidelberg

    Luca Delgrossi, Ralf Guido Herrtwich, Carsten Vogt & Lars C. Wolf

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Doug Shepherd Gordon Blair Geoff Coulson Nigel Davies Francisco Garcia

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Delgrossi, L., Herrtwich, R.G., Vogt, C., Wolf, L.C. (1994). Reservation protocols for internetworks: A comparison of ST-II and RSVP. In: Shepherd, D., Blair, G., Coulson, G., Davies, N., Garcia, F. (eds) Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video. NOSSDAV 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 846. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58404-8_18

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