An active network bandwidth reservation scheme

Author

Williams, Darren ; Nguyen, Chi ; Fekete, Alan ; Hitchens, Michael ; Kummerfeld, Bob

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

26-27 Mar 1999

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

This paper describes a novel scheme for ensuring quality of service in a dynamically extensible active network. Applications can reserve bandwidth on each link, and the node provides the guaranteed amount by manipulating weights in a fair-sharing scheme. The reservations are represented as objects in the soft state at each node of the network. We demonstrate the versatility of this scheme by showing how to design an active protocol that seeks to reserve end-to-end bandwidth even when no single path can provide enough for its needs

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; computer network management; protocols; quality of service; active network bandwidth reservation scheme; active protocol; dynamically extensible active network; end-to-end bandwidth reservation; fair-sharing scheme; network node; objects; quality of service; soft state; weight manipulation; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer science; Object oriented modeling; Packet switching; Protocols; Quality management; Quality of service; Resource management; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Open Architectures and Network Programming Proceedings, 1999. OPENARCH '99. 1999 IEEE Second Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5261-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OPNARC.1999.758434

Filename

758434