Title :
FLOWS: performance guarantees in best effort delivery systems
Author :
Comer, Douglas ; Yavatkar, Rajendra
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
A network-level communication abstraction called flow is discussed as a communication channel that has specific performance characteristics associated with its traffic. The underlying delivery system guarantees to meet performance requirements of a flow once it accepts a flow request. Upper layers use flows to implement transport-level protocols and high performance applications. The authors describe the concept of flows in detail and present algorithms that implement flows in a high-speed packet-switched network under development at Purdue University
Keywords :
packet switching; protocols; telecommunication channels; best effort delivery systems; communication channel; network-level communication abstraction; packet-switched network; performance guarantees; transport-level protocols; Application software; Communication switching; Delay; Image motion analysis; Optical packet switching; Packet switching; Protocols; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '89. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Technology: Emerging or Converging, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1920-1
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1989.101442
