Experiences with a protocol stack for multimedia transport

Author

Fan, C. ; Damaskos, S. ; Schmeil, M. ; Kho, I.E.

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. for Open Commun. Syst., German Nat. Res. Center for Inf. Technol., Berlin, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

3-7 Jul 1995

Firstpage

617

Lastpage

621

Abstract

Our experiences with the BERKOM MMT protocol stack are reported. The MMT protocol stack is aimed at multimedia data communications. It consists of the ST-II protocol at the network layer and a modified version of the XTP protocol called XTP-Lite at the transport layer. The specific features of the protocol stack are presented and the implementation in a SUN environment is detailed. Related performance measurements are also given to support our conclusions. The protocol stack is the core of the BERKOM multimedia transport system (MMTS). The MMTS is designed for communication between distributed multimedia applications on top of broadband ISDN networks

Keywords

B-ISDN; data communication; multimedia communication; transport protocols; BERKOM MMT protocol stack; ST-II protocol; SUN environment; XTP protocol; XTP-Lite; broadband ISDN; distributed multimedia applications; multimedia data communications; multimedia transport; multimedia transport system; network layer; performance measurements; transport layer; Data communication; ISDN; Measurement; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Streaming media; Sun; Throughput; Trademarks; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1995. Theme: Electrotechnology 2000: Communications and Networks. [in conjunction with the] International Conference on Information Engineering., Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2579-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1995.526362

Filename

526362