Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/OPNARC.1999.758434
