Flow Initiation and ReServation Tree (FIRST): a new Internet resource reservation protocol

Author

Chung, Tony W K ; Chan, Henry C B ; Leung, Victor C M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hung Hom, Hong Kong

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

364

Abstract

The best effort service provided by the current Internet is not suitable for supporting real-time multimedia applications which require quality of service (QoS) guarantees. To provide QoS over the Internet, a reservation mechanism is required to reserve resources along the data-delivery path. In this paper, we give an overview of three Internet reservation protocols: RSVP, ST-2+ and YESSIR, and compare their features. With the aim of combining the advantages of the above reservation protocols, a new reservation protocol called Flow Initiation and ReServation Tree (FIRST) is proposed. The operations of FIRST are explained with a number of examples

Keywords

Internet; multimedia communication; protocols; quality of service; FIRST; Flow Initiation and ReServation Tree; Internet reservation protocols; QoS guarantees; RSVP protocol; ST-2+ protocol; YESSIR protocol; data-delivery path; quality of service; real-time multimedia applications; resource reservation protocol; Aggregates; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Delay effects; Diffserv networks; Protocols; Quality of service; Scalability; TV; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5582-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1999.799551

Filename

799551