ABR-API for ABR aware applications and protocols

Author

Kawarasaki, Masatoshji ; Koike, Arata

Author_Institution

Multimedia Network Labs., NTT, Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

1230

Abstract

Although ATM is being deployed as the underlying transport of Internet communications, ATM network capabilities such as QoS control are not utilized by higher layer protocols and/or applications. Focusing on ABR, this paper proposes the ABR-API which allows higher layers to use ABR capabilities directly, and addresses some ABR aware applications and protocols. It further addresses functions and implementations of ABR-API as user-plane capability and discusses TCP-ABR interworking as a usage example of ABR-API to achieve lossless end-to-end communication under fluctuating network resource availability

Keywords

Internet; application program interfaces; asynchronous transfer mode; internetworking; quality of service; transport protocols; ABR aware applications; ABR aware protocols; ABR-API; ATM network; Internet communications; QoS control; TCP-ABR interworking; high-speed burst transport; lossless end-to-end communication; network resource availability; protocols; simulation; stable video transport; Application software; Availability; Bit rate; Communication system control; Computer networks; Feedback; IP networks; Laboratories; Protocols; Telecommunication network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1998. GLOBECOM 1998. The Bridge to Global Integration. IEEE

Conference_Location

Sydney,NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4984-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1998.776918

Filename

776918