High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications

High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the services and protocols for networks providing the communication support for distributed multimedia applications.
The need for end-to-end QoS for these multimedia applications is raising the stakes for a powerful shaping and scheduling in the network adapter. It is also creating a need for new services at the ATM layer, CBR and VBR being augmented by UBR, ABR and GFR which have to be evaluated in the TCP/IP environment of today and tomorrow.
With the pressure of all the new technologies available today, the backbone architecture needs to be revisited and the success of the TCP/IP must not eliminate the possibility of adding a native ATM access to it.
Most of the research in communication services such as IntServ, DiffServ and Native ATM is driven by the requirements of multimedia systems and this book illustrates the new emphasis by bringing telecommunication and computer communication experts together with application designers. This is particularly true for the security issues also addressed here.
Last but not least, modeling techniques and mathematical models are essential to assess the performance of the networks to be built and to evaluate next century scenarios unachievable by a simple scaling of today's solutions.
High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications is a collection of high quality research papers and the in-depth treatment of the subjects provides interesting and innovative solutions. It is an essential reference for telecommunication and computer experts and QoS-based application designers. It is also a comprehensive text for graduate students in high-perforrnance networks and multimedia applications.

List of contents

1. Advanced Traffic Shaping Combined With Efficient DMA Transfer.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Existing Hardware Solutions and their Limitations.- 3. Adapter Architecture.- 4. Integrated Scheduling, Advanced Shaping and DMA Transfer.- 5. Performance Evaluation.- 6. Conclusions.- 2. A Simulation Study of TCP With the GFR Service Category.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The GFR Service Category.- 3. Proposed Switch Implementations.- 4. The Simulation Model.- 5. LAN Simulations with FIFO-based Switches.- 6. WAN Simulations with the FIFO-based Implementation.- 7. LAN Simulations with the WFQ-based Implementation.- 8. WAN Simulations with the WFQ-based Implementation.- 9. Impact of Tagging on the TCP Performance with WFQ-based Switch Implementation.- 10. Related Work.- 11. Conclusion.- 3. A Comparison of ABR and UBR to Support TCP Traffic for LAN Interconnection.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Interconnection Model.- 3. Varying Background Load.- 4. ABR Performance Degradation.- 5. ABR to the Workstation.- 6. Conclusion.- 4. Interconnection of Local Area Networks via ATM.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Direct Approach.- 3. Modelling of Connectionless Overlay Networks.- 4. Optimization Methods.- 5. Simulation Results.- 6. Conclusions.- 5. TCP/IP, ATM And IP Cell Switching.- 1. Introduction.- 2. ATM Networks.- 3. Evolution of Internet.- 4. Short, Medium and Long Term Evolution.- 5. An IP Cell Switching.- 6. A Performance Evaluation.- 7. Conclusion.- 6. Protocol Mechanisms for Native ATM Transport Services.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Native ATM Services.- 3. A Transport Service Architecture for Native ATM.- 4. Protocol Mechanisms for the Transfer Layer.- 5. Related Work.- 6. Conclusion.- 7. Communication Services for Multimedia Systems.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Service versus Protocol.- 3. Multimedia Transport Services.- 4. Protocol Architectures for Multimedia Transport Services.- 5. The GCommS Multimedia Multipeer Services.- 6. The GCommS Protocol Architecture.- 7. Conclusions.- 8. Internet-Based Secure Virtual Networks.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Internet-based Virtual Networks and their Requirements.- 3. Supranet Design Issues.- 4. Security Mechanisms.- 5. Sender Anonymity.- 6. Conclusions.- 9. Network Calculus Using Min-Plus System Theory.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Notation and Background.- 3. System Modelling.- 4. Application to the 3 Examples.- 10. Life-Considerations for Wide-Area Distribution of Multimedia Data.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Related Work.- 3. Investigation.- 4. Simulation Model.- 5. Conclusion.- Index of Authors.

About the author

Otto Spaniol (Jahrgang 1945) gehört zu den Informatikern 'der ersten Stunde' (oder vielleicht etwas bescheidener ausgedrückt: "des zweiten Monats") in Deutschland. Während des Mathe- und Physikstudium diffundierte er unter Anleitung seines Lehrmeisters Günter Hotz in die damals noch nicht offiziell existierende Informatik. Seine GI-Mitgliedsnummer (59) ist schon beinahe unwirklich niedrig. Nach einer Assistenzprofessur in Saarbrücken wurde er 1976 auf eine C3- Professur nach Bonn berufen und im Jahr 1981 auf den Lehrstuhl für Betriebssysteme an der Universität Frankfurt/Main. Durch seine Bonner Zeit zum Wahlrheinländer mutiert, zog es ihn in diese Gegend zurück. Seit 1984 war er bis zur Emeritierung im Jahr 2010 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls Kommunikation und verteilte Systeme an der RWTH Aachen. Die Absurditäten des täglichen Informatikwahnsinns veranlassten ihn schon früh zur Abfassung von manchmal recht bösartigen Glossen - meist unter dem Pseudonym "Alois Potton" (was genauer betrachtet ein Anagramm seines Namens ist).

Summary

High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the services and protocols for networks providing the communication support for distributed multimedia applications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andre Danthine (Editor), Wolfgang Effelsberg (Editor), Wolfgang Effelsberg et al (Editor), Domenico Ferrari (Editor), Ott Spaniol (Editor), Otto Spaniol (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780792382744
• ISBN: 978-0-7923-8274-4
• No. of pages: 185
• Weight: 467 g
• Illustrations: XI, 185 p.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks