Integration of flow and QOS control in multicast routing

Author

Ravindran, K. ; Liu, Xiliang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., City Univ. of New York, NY, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

514

Lastpage

517

Abstract

Current works on QOS-routing allow flow and QOS control to be exercised on multicast paths after an underlying routing protocol (e.g., DVMRP and CBT) sets up these paths. The ´QOS-control-after-routing´ paradigm limits the ability of routers to provide cost-efficient routing (in a network-wide sense) because they can explore only those paths already set up even if more cost-efficient alternate paths exist. This motivates the need to integrate routing with flow and QOS control, wherein alternate paths can be considered to enable cost-efficient path setups. The paper proposes scalable IntServ-style mechanisms at the flow management and routing protocol levels.

Keywords

multicast communication; quality of service; routing protocols; telecommunication congestion control; IntServ; QOS control; cost-efficient routing; flow control; multicast routing; routing protocol; Bandwidth; Cities and towns; Communication system traffic control; Computer science; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Engineering management; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2002. Proceedings. Eleventh International Conference on

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7553-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2002.1043116

Filename

1043116