Chapter 11
Land-Based Broadband Networks
Figure 1 is an example of distributed multimedia communication architecture
ATM is a good candidate for distributed multimedia network
Resource Assignment scheme
| Type
| Advantage
| Disadvantage
|
| Static
| Simple to implement
| Inefficient and wasteful
|
| Dynamic
| Optimum utilization
| More complex
|
Dynamic Resource Allocation Scheme example
ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)
Session Reservation Protocol (SRP)