A High Performance Message-Passing System for Network of Workstations
The Journal of Supercomputing - Special issue: high performance distributed computing
Distributed Video Production: Tasks, Architecture and QoS Provisioning
Multimedia Tools and Applications
A communication model for structural design objects. II: performatives and protocols
Advances in Engineering Software
A communication model for structural design objects. II: Performatives and protocols
Advances in Engineering Software
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At the data-link layer, ATM offers a number of features, such as high-bandwidth and per-session quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees, making it particularly attractive to multimedia applications. Unfortunately, many of these features are not visible to applications because of the inadequacies of existing higher-level protocol architectures. Although there is considerable effort underway to tune these protocols for ATM networks, we believe that a new ATM-specific protocol stack is essential to effectively exploit all the benefits of ATM. We describe the semantics of such a protocol stack, and discuss its advantages over traditional protocol architectures from the perspective of multimedia applications. The performance impact of the new protocol architecture is experimentally demonstrated on a video conferencing testbed built around IBM RS/6000's equipped with prototype hardware for video/audio processing, and connected via ATM links