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

fYear

1989

fDate

23-27 Apr 1989

Firstpage

100

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1989.101442

Filename

101442