A Protocol Architecture for Multimedia Document Retrieval over High Speed LANs

  • Authors:
  • H. Fahmi;S. Baqai;R. Paul;A. Bashandy;A. Ghafoor

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASSET '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application - Specific Software Engineering and Technology
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The emergence of gigabit local area networks (GLANs) has spurred a tremendous interest in supporting networked multimedia applications over a LAN. Such LANs do not support the notion of QoS required by multimedia documents due to their asynchronous media access protocol. In this paper, we propose a dynamic bandwidth management scheme that uses the concept of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). Significant performance improvement is observed through experimental results, specially to transmission rates an jitter. We also propose a framework for graceful degradation of play-out quality of multimedia objects in case the LAN's total capacity is not sufficient to meet the overall demand.