Adaptive rate-controlled scheduling for multimedia applications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Migrating Sockets is the protocol processing component of an end system architecture designed for networking with QoS guarantees. The architecture provides (1) adaptive rate-controlled scheduling of protocol threads in Migrating Sockets, (2) rate-based flow control for reserved rate connections in future integrated services networks, and (3) a constant overhead active demultiplexing mechanism. Migrating Sockets achieves its efficiency by allowing user applications to manage a network endpoint with minimal system intervention, providing user level protocols read-only access to routing information in a "well-known" shared memory region, and integrating efficient kernel level support we previously built. It is backward compatible with Unix semantics and Berkeley sockets, and has been used to implement Internet protocols such as TCP, UDP and IP (including IP multicast). We also show that active demultiplexing supported by Migrating Sockets can be transparently enabled in wide-area TCP/IP internetworking