Mc. Yuang et Jc. Liu, QTS - A QOS-GUARANTEED TRANSPORT-SYSTEM FOR BROAD-BAND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE transactions on industrial electronics, 45(1), 1998, pp. 69-77
In this paper, we propose a quality of-service (QOS)guaranteed transpo
rt system (QTS), which offers various QOS's at the transport layer for
broad-band multimedia communications, The QTS, composed of a bandwidt
h allocator and a transport protocol module, supports three classes of
applications requiring different bit rates, delay sensitivity, and lo
ss sensitivity, The bandwidth allocator intelligently manages the allo
cation of transport-layer bandwidth at the expense of imposing inevita
ble blocking of delay-sensitive application connections, The transport
protocol module of the QTS performs rate-based flow control for delay
-sensitive applications based on transfer rates predetermined by the b
andwidth allocator, In addition, the module accomplishes error control
only for loss-sensitive applications, As a result, as will be shown,
by providing guaranteed rates and reducing the error control overhead,
the QTS offers satisfactory bounded delays and jitters for delay-sens
itive applications, while incurring minimal throughput degradation for
loss-sensitive applications, Finally, we demonstrate the superiority
of the QTS over transmission control protocol (TCP) via simulation res
ults in terms of maximum and mean system delays and delay jitter.