A programmable transport architecture with QoS guarantees

• Published in: IEEE communications magazine Vol. 36; no. 10; pp. 54 - 62
• Main Authors: Huard, J.-F., Lazar, A.A.
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.1998
• Subjects: Data processing; Engines; MPEG 4 Standard; Multimedia systems; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Quality of service; Resource management; Runtime; Transport protocols

The emergence of distributed multimedia applications exhibiting significantly more stringent quality of service requirements than conventional data-oriented applications calls for new transport protocols with different characteristics to coexist and be integrated within single applications. The diff...