Priority and Realtime Data Transfer over theBest-effort Internet

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-3-639-16197-7
Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 209 g

The current Internet provides a single class of
best-effort service with no guarantee as to when or
even whether a packet is to be delivered. Network
applications, however, have a wide variety of quality
of service requirements. Achieving the diverse
requirements of the applications using the
single-class service is a challenging task.
In this book, we study providing real-time and
prioritized data transfer over the best-effort
Internet, emphasizing a practical application-level
approach using TCP, which requires no change to the
current Internet architecture and transport
protocols. We exemplify this approach using three
widely used applications: multimedia streaming,
low-priority data transfer, and multipath data
transfer. Our work demonstrates that the diverse
requirements of a number of network applications can
be achieved using a practical application-level
approach built on top of TCP, and intelligently
utilizing the internal mechanisms in TCP can
dramatically simplify the design of an
application-level service.
This book is for both researchers and practitioners
in the field, and graduate students who are
interested in computer networks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Bing

Über Autor(innen)

Bing Wang is currently an assistant professor in the Computer
Science & Engineering Department at the University of
Connecticut. She received M.S. degrees in Computer Science and
Applied Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000, 2004, and 2005
respectively.